Wighat
The Hum of All Things
Self-released
By Eileen Tilson
Wighat’s latest album, The Hum of All Things,
is as confusing and complicated as its cover. The EP contains a booklet that
looks like it came right out of the pages of singer Rubi Cuautle’s journal, and
is encased in a weblike envelope with a skull cut out with a metronome nose.
Thus, it is ironic that there are only five songs on this intricate
album.
Wighat was born in early 2006 to singer/front person
Rubi Cuautle and drummer P. I. Navarro, guitarists Josh Cochran, Eric Amata (No
River City) and bassist Drew de Man (Old Custer). Recorded at Wonder Root in
Atlanta, it seems that Wighat spent more of their money on the making of the
album art than they did on the making of the actual music. The result of these recordings are five New Age songs filled with obscure lyrics that give the
feeling of being at a Pagan spoken word set to the tune of some unreleased jam
band music. Their lyrics are overly complicated without showing any really
depth: “I’ll be the giant turkey, when you want to stick your head in the
oven.”
The album shifts back and forth between psychedelic
jam band riffs, as in "The Head in the Clouds,” to dark funk in “My Mother is
the Sod.” In each song, Wighat gives their own gospel, reminding its listeners,
“We are all made of matter/Made of particles and waves.”
