Frownland |
10-15-2017 02:30 PM |
I can't deny that this album fulfills its goals. It's ethereal and jumps from being romantic to haunting to almost lonely. I love the way that he leads the melody from solo to dense tonal chords. There are many beautiful moments on this record when the organ leads from behind and adds a little bit of flavour to it. Whether it's the recording space that they did it in or just very well produced, the reverberance is great.
However, there was very little about this record that really grabbed me. I can appreciate the atmosphere that it builds, but I think that adding some minimal percussion would make this much better. It works best as a handful of tracks, as I felt that the album dragged on a bit and felt monotonous. This is also one of those things that is so ingrained in my culture via soundtracks that it's difficult to tell what he really added to this outside of what had already been made in this style. Gotta love that atmosphere though. I'll go with a 3.5/5
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