Ofttimes in horror, it is sounds and music that sets us truly on edge. These notes and cues expertly twist our eardrums until we grit out teeth and goose bumps erupt across our arms, like some master puppeteer who uses piano strings and gently caresses them with razors to make us dance to his sick tune.
To celebrate these demented sounds, I turned to Meredith Yayanos of The Parlour Trick to create a list of her most unsettling sounds and cues. To say that she succeeded in this list is an understatement as her list tackles everything from clips from horror films to glitched out computer drones, TV broadcast hijacks to animals in the wild.
Yayanos writes:
Greetings, kind spirits. Lovely to be here. May I suggest, depending on your proclivities, that you either listen to all of this stuff in a well-lit room while cuddling your favorite binky, or in pristine None-More-Goth darkness? Your call, of course.
In honor of it being Halloween, aka Goth Christmas, aka The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Meredith is selling 5 extremely rare, long sold-out vinyl copies from her personal stash of The Parlour Trick‘s album A Blessed Unrest through her Bandcamp site, autographed, with some extra goodies thrown in. $50 bucks a pop. (Limit of one per customer, please.) Hurry! They’re likely to sell out very quickly.
I own a copy of A Blessed Unrest and I can assure you that $50 is well worth every penny. The packaging is gorgeous and the vinyl is a beautiful red. Plus, it sounds absolutely divine and terrifying on vinyl.
Alright, onto the list!