Album Review - “Every day They Change Their Number” by Sasco

In the experimental landscape of the music scene of today, Sasco’s project “Every day They Change Their Number” can come across as a scatterbrain sound of random directions looking to find their cohesiveness. But among the hundreds of sounds compounded throughout this project, there’s a beautiful artistic playfulness, incorporated with a knack for making songs that fill like white noise to provide sensory information.

This project provides a peculiar argument to the straightforward sounds of today: that something special in music has been lost. Not in terms of talent, but the filling of childlike wonder, where every sound is possible, and the singular rule of music should be that there should be no rules.

From the opening song “Overture,” a six-minute roller-coaster of sounds, it’s clear that the expressions of the sound are more important than the particulars. In a strictly experimenting sense, this project captures mood-altering environments on record and crafts them so that they are not individually identifiable but cohesively enjoyable. In addition, this project still serves the segments of musical storytelling. This project is a blueprint on how to execute that formula.

Other songs in the record’s opening, such as “Detachment,” provide enough context to allow the listener enough engagement to see Sasco’s identity as a creator. These songs paint the entire picture of the project and the artist. With tingling arpeggios of plucks filling the beginning moments of the track, a little more than two minutes later, the song will have undergone several evolutions, crafting to a sound that’s unidentifiable to its peaceful beginnings.

Overall this project is not a wave of sound, but a crashing experience of music. One that is a joy to listen to. You can listen to the project here.