Review Summary:
A pleasing journey into outer space
Opener "Fluid" is an upbeat, modern nod to the sci-fi genre. It beeps and blips and explores new world upon the heaving shuttle that is Megami. There's clearly a focus and an intent with this EP, sadly the opener strikes me as just that – an introduction, no more.
Next track "End Of Days" continues this theme of ever-expanding technology with what sounds like a ring modulator in the mix. Glittering snowflakes fall onto thick space slugs in what is a track with constrasting instrumentation. The beat is unrelenting in its drive, implying some sort of ***'s gone down between humans and aliens that's not good with hostility increasing towards the end of the track.
"Goldie Gray" starts with a breakbeat against a simple synth pattern – like a kid's just got a new toy to play with. The question-answer style of the two different sections works well in this aesthetic – like intergalatic neighbours are trying to communicate in a basic manner in their respective tongues, with neither getting through to the other.
There's a sense of the ceremonial to "Three Lights", like the humans have stumbled across the aliens underground. Undetected, they watch as the aliens sway to and fro in an odd fashion. Has someone died and they're mourning? Do aliens believe in a higher power aswell? We don't have the answer.
"Rangst Ast" goes back to Megami's ambient work, with less electronic sounds bleeping their way in. There's an implied movement, sounds of technology work their way in towards the end of the track – like the humans have made it back to their ship to escape. A decaying delay at the end represents the alien planet getting smaller in their rear view mirror, as soon it becomes a dot in the distance.
Closer "Deep South" takes on an entirely different flavour. Far more human, if only for the claps sample and lighthearted laughing, than the rest of this EP. The humans will make it home, safe and sound.
A pleasing journey into outer space
