Experimental Dental School’s “forest Field”

Experimental Dental School’s latest release, Force Field is much like a strange dream where you end up chasing someone/thing through a huge house. Never able to clearly focus on what is running from you, just a vague shape and feeling.

Forest Field is a spacey collection of awkward loose melodies and tight propulsive jams with numerous surprises that you never get close enough to know. Going from pounding rhythm to jerky odd breakdowns XDS take every chance to explore their options musically.

Haunting art rock contrasting with strange vague guitar stabs, XDS give “Argentine Pears” a sweet summer flavor. Then in the middle of the song, you’re suddenly in the basement talking with your Fourth Grade Teacher, listening to punchy rhythms ending with an old fashioned breakdown jam that has you climbing stairs into attic darkness. Never quite sure of where you’re going. “Dark Stars in Daylight” a ripping somber song weaving strings with moaning synth that has a feeling as if out of the corner of your eye someone/thing just passed by the door, you look down the hall, see no one turn around finding yourself on the porch with someone running around the corner of the house. A frustrating and entertaining dream filled with unpredictable creativity.

Shoko Horikawa’s voice travels from behind an invisible curtain gently tapping your shoulder then disappearing into the mist of the music. Jesse Hall comes out strong on the standout song “Earthquake”. Forest Field is as much fun as getting lost in house while in a dream chasing someone/thing (structure, order) and never catching it. You could easily be annoyed giving up immediately desperately grasping for normal or If stumbling through a confusing awkward journey doesn’t freak you out, then Forest Field is for you.