Music affected by death is some of, if not the most, powerful forms of art out there. Just in the last sixteen months, albums like Blackstar, Skeleton Tree, Stage Four, All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, Legends Never Die, You Want It Darker, and A Crow Looked At Me deal directly with the death of someone close to the artist or the artist themselves. After his brother perished in a plane crash, Matthew Patton started making music under the moniker Those Who Walk Away to try and make sense of death and the everlasting effects it has on everyone. The Infected Mass is teary-eyed drone and ambient influenced my musique concrete, as well as centering around exchanges between pilots and air traffic controllers during inevitable plane crashes. You hear the last moments of a man and understand those are also the last moments of nearly a hundred others. It's a brother trying to come to grips with the death of one of his own, and in that sense, it's very heartfelt and quite beautiful.
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