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| 3.0 good | Bedex | August 12th 20 |
I have trouble with music this contemplative being so disjointed. I feel like an ambient-leaning album should morph from idea to idea, and only rarely be abrupt. This one breaks its own atmosphere with several transitions - the end of 1 which breaks its otherwise solid atmosphere with interesting elements, the awful drum introduction on 3 after the blissful 2, though followed by a fun ambient jpop track that doesnt quite commit, back into the hypnotic but not super great 4, or the intro of 8 which is cool but breaks the atmosphere again. Even between tracks that do flow well there often is no transition to speak of or no connection really. There are tracks that do function very well: 5 which is great music to look at the slow life in the trees - would've been a great album intro imo -, the cool foresty sounds of 6 with some Sigur Ros DNA, the fun synth+voice combination on 7 evoking a much much more accessible La Monte Young, the very nice 10 with its dark and ominous Celer-ey (lol) sounds, the nice vocal ambients on 12, the nice synthwork on 13, and the stunning 14, perhaps my fave here as a soft and inspiring tracks. That is most tracks, true, but as a record this feels more like a compilation to me, and again especially with this vibe and genre mix I have trouble with that. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, I'll give this another listen. 3.2
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| 5.0 classic | Gleam | August 3rd 22 |
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