Bleep

Aaron Martin’s Worried About The Fire is an album of avant-garde small-ensemble compositions. It would appear that Martin has taken the principles of doom metal and drone as the starting points from which to create these pieces of chamber folk. Numbers like ‘Water Tongue’ and ‘Open Knife’ see string parts slipping over one another like a warped Baroque pop record that’s being played at the wrong speed. Other moments - ‘Ice Melts Onto Fingers’, for instance - abandon harmony altogether in order to create eerie atmospheres.