Death Hags - Topologie Spectrale

This review was commissioned through Ko-fi. However, it bears no weight on the score or decision. All reviews are written from an unbiased standpoint. 

LA musician and songwriter Death Hags never fails to impress with her endeavors; the living embodiment of, "I do what I want," she releases Halloween albums at random, focuses on an odd fusion of avant garde music with experimental and space themes, and now she's making soundtracks for novels. Her latest album "Lost in the Triangle d'Or" is the official soundtrack for author James Greer's latest novel Bad Eminence. She's just released a music video for the opening track on that album titled 'Topologie Spectrale', so we'll be taking a look at that.


Swirling ambient music and sampled vocals begins off the album as very lightly tapped drums fade into the background. Feedback, like that of a record spinning before the music begins, also taps into the background making an ominous atmosphere. High-pitched, but not high enough to be a squeal, come in later as soft jungle like drums play in the background. As the song continues, these strange sounds warp and play with one another, and Death Hags continues to add in dreamy twangs and other such nonsensical sounds. It's a damned good experimental bout - one that knows its limits considering it cuts off around the three-and-a-half-minute mark. 

I don't know if I'll ever read Bad Eminence, as it doesn't seem to tickly my fancy, but I can at least thank the novel for spawning this single. Seven-and-a-half out of ten. 
Aug 02 2022