Vowels And The Pattern Prism

Vowels is a two piece band comprising of James Rutledge and drummer Chris Walmsley. The name seems to be approrpriate for these guys as their sound is something approaching the noise that would be made if you crammed a,e,i,o,u and y all together, repeated them and processed them through a series of synthesizers, pedals, and microprocessors. Their album, The Pattern Prism is a cosmic jam of noise, chaos, and something approaching melody. Listening to this album is like listening to string theory being brought to life by a team of mad physicists and that's pretty darn cool in my book.

Geek rock to the twentieth power, The Pattern Prismis what happens when two guys just never stop playing their instruments and never stop recording what they play. Much of what Vowels do is so epic and sprawling in nature that the CD format can barely contain what these guys come up with. If you were to take Krautrock and add more RAWK to the formula you can kind of picture what these guys are doing and just how their doing it; take no prisoners.

Uncontrollable, zany, and noisy The Pattern Prismis a white knuckle rollercoaster ride of sounds. The Pattern Prism is a series of songs that sounds like an audio experiment played by robots on the fritz. It's up, it's down, it's loud, it's quiet, it's giving you headache and it's calming you down, The Pattern Prismis all of these things plus the theory of relativity beaten up with a baseball bat. If the apocalypse were to have a soundtrack (that's not tied into 2012) then this might very well be it. Check out the never-ending surgical disaster of, "Appendix," or the synthesized workshop destruction of, "Eh Uh," for shining examples of why Vowels will be the last band to ever play on the planet earth. Entropy has never sounded so good and The Pattern Prism is one for all you math geeks out there.