Review Summary: Truncated ambiance
Reviewing ambient music is a difficult task. Especially when it comes to experimental ambient music. Finding points to judge is hard, because this music is just not made to be discussed, it is just made to be listened to. To relax to. To enhance your mood. The perfect ambient music is music that can easily fade into the background, but is not a total waste of time when you decide to actually listen to it. But this is experimental ambient. Throw your expectations out the window, we're travelling into unknown territory.
Andrews goal with this EP was to built evocative soundscapes out of 4 or less sources of sound. Saying that this is an adventurous endeavor is kind of understating it. But minimalism has been done right before on multiple occasions, so let's look at what Andrew serves us.
And suprisingly enough, whatever he is doing on here, it kinda works. The sounds are heavily atmospheric, his sonic manipulation is gripping, the soundscapes are pretty evocative. Every song gets it's own little place to radiate. Each song has a beautiful slow built with pleasant sounds, without ever being too boring or too generic.
Worth noting is the track 2x because of its overly big length and its almost progressive approach to his method on here, with the four sources of sound fading in and out, without repeating themselves too much, creating a seemingly unending stream of an eerie, but weirdly pleasant atmosphere. Also notable is the use of an acoustic guitar on this track.
And this is about everything I can say about this project without being too subjective. This is mostly an EP you have to listen to yourself and form your own opinion, because I can't imagine too many people sharing the same thoughts on this project. But for what it is, highly impressionist minimalist evocative soundscapes, I don't see a reason for you to dislike it too much. And it also makes a shiny new badge on Andrew's list of tried genres.
