Inspirex by Why the Eye?

Sure, you call your band DIY, but who made your instruments? For Belgian experimentalists Why the Eye? on their new album Inspirex, homemade instruments with absurd names like the “castabignettes” draw us into their idiosyncratic world. Without turning to traditional folk instruments, the band generates a sound that feels ancient and essentially human, stamping their techno sound with a rare degree of personality. A stunning variety of sounds appear on this album using various combinations of unique instrumental creations and signal processing chains, giving each track its own character. However, even as these sounds hit their points of greatest abstraction, distortion, and disintegration, the steady hand of the creator appears over all, unifying all of these sounds under the warm, whimsical nature that the band can’t help but emanate constantly. A rare true piece of outsider art in every sense of the word, Inspirex relishes in the visibility of the human touch, celebrating us in an era that sees our labor and nature continuously devalued.