If you've read any Philip K. Dick you might have heard of his book VALIS, in which he explores a life-altering religious experience he had using a character modeled after part of himself. This album is like the disorienting, biblically-accurate-angel, overwhelming sonic equivalent of that. The riffs are constantly shifting but at times almost in a way where it's like they're taken apart and then the bits that are added as flourish or an "unfolding" ends up shifting into a different riff, but there's also lots of callbacks to the forms and structures of different motifs throughout. This album has been continually mind-fucking me in the best way possible for the past 2 weeks. Definitely not for everyone, but if it's up your alley, it's up your alley.
Mar 5, 2025
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this is like 70% the future of pop music and 30% prog rock, it's a concept album about transformation through the thematic lens of aliens sticking a CD in your head, and the nerds over on rateyourmusic are calling it the album of the year. get this - they're right. saw it live the other week and maybe got a gig of the year out of it as well. I mean look at that.
Dec 4, 2024
There is something about this album that makes it so hard for me to hear. It is deeply uncomfortable and really scary, but its a really interesting ambient work.
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Bonus points if you didn't even do anything wrong, it's just because of the circumstances of the relationship (long-distance) and your partner not being able to handle it anymore (they say it hurts too much when you're away)
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When you see their light grey outline from bright moonlight with some stars peeking through...just feels so mystic. Like I feel a visceral connection to the people back in the day who would quest through open plains between the forests at night
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