6th Event is a solo multi-instrumentalist project by Craig Trumbo who released The Twelve-Year Blues. He explains that “the main thrust of the project is motivated toward examining anxieties concerning the future. It's not just climate change, that's only the backdrop; it's the whole unraveling.”
The music itself doesn't have many hooks or catchy choruses. It’s more like psychedelic collages of sounds. There is spoken word, unusual but inventive sounds and a lot more unique territory. Up first is “John Galt is Dead” which combines a couple of jangly minor and major chords with wave like percussion and soaring lead guitar. I had a hard time making out the words no matter how many times I listened. He is talking here often in a very melodramatic fashion. A voice is hard panned left and one is hard panned right. I honestly didn’t know what to think after this song. It felt like some disconnected abstract piece in the spirit of David Lynch. I was intrigued. That sort of disconnect continues with “Backhaul to China” but is even darker. Trumbo combines doom metal which transitions into brighter chords and then goes into a number of disparate sections. The whole song feels like you are going down a rabbit hole of absurdity and random thoughts. I am pretty sure that was the intent. “A Fast Melt” reminded me of Ariel Pink. In fact, the more I think about it the more it reminded me him and Frank Zappa. This song again goes into a number of different sections with abrupt transitions. There are steel drums, repetitive singing which sounds like a jingle and a couple of more surprises. “This Inconvenient Stranger” was my favorite song in the batch. There are digital orchestral strings, brush work and spoken word which sounds like it’s from a play. I suppose this song might be the most overtly about climate change but the ambiguous lyrics make it hard to tell. “The Twelve-Year Blues” has this plastic quality to it. There is again this sort of detachment I was feeling as if it was a caricature. I have to admit I’m a little confused on his angle. I’m pretty sure this was purposely supposed to feel a little absurd and disconnected like Ariel Pink or Frank Zappa. At the very least, this is a piece of art that makes you think which is one of the things good art is supposed to make you do.
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