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| 3.5 great | Bedex | February 14th 20 |
Quality drone, but not one for the history books. This one is much more bare bones than the previous album, consisting for the most part in a dark ambient texture and scarce random sounds that are rare enough to create an atmosphere without ruining it. Because it is simpler, this one is maybe less interesting than Knive, but it just succeeds better at what it does. It is very nicely done drone that I enjoyed listening to, but it's really never hooking, mesmerising or mindblowing and felt like a solid upper average 3.6 or something for most of it. 1 is a dark and intriguing album intro, a simple and jammy track that feels like it is just the right length. 2 is a bit softer and I like it but is even less marking, but the rain sample towards the end creates a nice build up. 3 is the soundtrack to dying in your sleep and brings the quality back up with a nice, slow descent in an increasingly low ended bass abyss of sounds. It hits more than track 2, not because there are more textures, but because they feel denser and richer, more nuanced, more evocative, more evolving and shifting. 4 continues this intensity into a nice buildup, bumping this temporarily to a nice 3.7, before coming back down. Track 5 (side B-3) really is the mistake here that brings the album down a severe notch. The track feels a flatter and in excess, it is mostly just wind and lacks the depth and richness of 3-4's textures. I wish the album had ended on the build up of 4 and not let a protracted downward curve let its energy go quietly. I do like the noise washout ending though, but that just was not the place to have it. 3.45
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