Sublamp’s enigmatically titled “Bleach Kids” is like the musical equivalent of abstract film layers projected onto one another and captured on onto sixteen millimeter, repeat a few times, and then the reels left in a hot garage for a summer and processed digitally to enhance the parts of what’s left to recontextualize the source material. The visualizer for the song is a blend of what looks like old film stock and abstract digital visual glitches thrown in with shifting levels of opacity. The music has a roiling background drone with a touch of higher pitch ghost of a melody while surges of sound flare out the way a hole burned in film stock would look projected onto a screen would visually. It’s like an attempt to capture the flow of the memory of a dream you can snatch from the subconscious right after waking. That gift of memory exiting the hypnogogic state that turns the mundane dream experiences into something that pulses with a significance that completely eludes the mind in the mode of adapting to the linear flow of waking consciousness. There is a lot of repetition across it’s seven minutes five seconds but you get hooked into the song from the beginning and at the end it seems impossible that a song only two seconds longer than “Layla” with less obvious activity could seem to take you on a soothing journey and feel like just a few moments have passed. Watch the video for “Bleach Kids” on YouTube and follow Sublamp at the links below.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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