VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater | Album Review

Jon Crosby, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist at the helm of VAST, was a well-regarded guitarist as a teen who signed a record deal with Elektra at just seventeen years old. On the debut, Crosby takes 90s industrial rock in the vein of Nine Inch Nails or Stabbing Westward and layers unexpected sounds, like Benedictine monks and Bulgarian women's choirs, to create haunting soundscapes that compliment his wide vocal range that can belt it out or croon with equal effectiveness. Visual Audio Sensory Theater is a true album, with extended intros and subtle connective tissue running throughout the record that will divide listeners today just as it did in 1998.

 

Songs In This Episode:

Intro - The Niles Edge

18:42 - I'm Dying

21:56 - Here

32:13 - Dirty Hole

40:24 - Touched

Outro - Pretty When You Cry

 

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