Elliott the Letter Ostrich
Blood Cape
( Asaurus ) 2005
"
They say I'm no good for you, that I'm just in it for the blood - but
they're just player hatin' "
Well look
what the cute little bird from Asaurus has brought to the doorstep!
Dressed in cloaks reflecting countless nights of haunting the neighborhood
and ultimately avoiding the daylight, Elliott the Letter Ostrich's
Blood Cape may need more than one complete revolution to set
in.
"Well
what the shit do you mean by that, asshole?"
 I'd
never really spent much time wondering what Ohio's Woody Whatever might
sound like if they made off with Jason Lytle's collection of synthesizers
and created an album that would make Stoker & Murnau
yearn for more blood - but Blood Cape is just that. Hell, pay
close enough attention and you'll see additional instruments such as
banjo ("My Baroness") slip into the mix atop the Casio-driven
8-bit symphonies. Have you ever thought "what if some
band, maybe from Oklahoma even, were to take the core of Modern English's
"I Melt With You" and replace the generic make-out verbiage
with themes of the dead"? Sure, we all have, and "Love
Song for the Walking Dead" does just that -- plus some -- infusing
digital handclaps and crafting just one of a dozen memorable anthems
on Blood Cape. Ah, I've yet to name my favorite here - "Get
Plenty of Sleep, You'll Need It to Keep Your Eyes Open". It starts
quite Elliott the Letter Ostrich, with a heavenly backing rhythm followed
by some words about death, the color black or both (the album is co-sponsored
by the letter blood, y'know). Then about 3/4 of the
way through a huge glitch rises from the center of the player that revolves
Blood Cape and unleashes an alarm that, after just a few seconds,
reveals a few bare notes on the Casio and EtLO wordsman Count Jhohn
Casio repeating "everybody here is going to die".
Hallow'ed be thy name, "Eat Yourself So You Can Be Invisible"!
EtLO
are believed to record analog (!) to Tascam ("..too
dumb to work a computer. And too poor".) rather than directly
to the NES, and the fact that they even mention Castlevania
makes me weak at the knees. Simon Belmont used to haunt me in the night
when I was nine, and to this day I.. . I cannot repeat that name in
full.
Packaged in a damn fine handmade setting, last I saw this set was going
for $5 over at Asaurus
- get to it.
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kaleb
:: (12.13.05) 
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