Track-length-wise, Disc 3 of the Natural Snow Buildings album Aldebaran is the inverse of Disc 2. Where Disc 2 had two long-form drone bookending three shorter compositions, Disc 3 has its long-form drone, "Go Kill Because I Told You So," sandwiched between some shorter compositions.
Speaking of "Go Kill," Disc 3 has some of the more, um, interesting track titles of the album. The first three cuts, 666 Devils Lane, Teen Psychics #2, and "Go Kill" sound like they could be track titles from a punk album.
666 Devil Lane starts the disc off with a jump, coming at you right our of the gate with some aggressive noise drone.
Teen Psychics #2 starts as a lo-fi pastoral drone and evolves into a sustained guitar exercise. It would fit right in with TDotMatS except it is so radically lo-fi that it crosses at times into distortion.
"Go Kill Because I Told You So" is the long (23 minutes) drone on this disc and, because of that, the main event here.
"Go Kill" is a dark, dense composition, one of NSB's horror-drones. Like most tracks on Aldebaran, it piles layers of guitar, some playing sustained if fuzzed-out notes, others squealing with feebdback, on top of each other. The structure of the composition, such as it is, is created by the different lengths of the loops, so that at any given time, different sounds are heard together.
Stars Grove is basically more of the same as "Go Kill" but a little bit noisier, a little bit faster, and eight minutes shorter. "Go Kill" on meth if you will.
At 34 seconds, Eusapia, the closing track on Disc 3, is the shortest track in the NSB discography. Blink and you'll miss it, but it sounds like someone yodeling into a steam vent.
On to Disc 4!
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