| This album doesn't obey any rules and goes in any direction it wishes. I admire any music that is willing to connect what is usually considered separate. This album is dense and it took time to grow, but it is extremely beautiful, odd and listenable. Parts are instrumentally hard to understand, but the challenge to listen to those parts is fun and a learning experience. The songs diverge into epic climaxes full of polyrhythms and multi-meters, where as the build ups can be anything from ambiance, meditative, discordant, avant-garde, or unintuitive. rThis album covers a lot of modern genres, post-rock, post-metal and experimental Electronic for starters. Others include djent, math-rock, math-metal, classical, stoner, psychedlic, shoegaze, progressive metal, and oriental/nu-age music. There are so many layers and colors; it is a highly saturated piece. Because of this it can be hard for any one part of a song to stick out through the walls of sound. This can be nice at times, difficult at others, but if you let the noise envelop your mind, or simply focus on one of the rhythms/melodies, you can find some very interesting results. rThis is a great work, and even though polishing it would allow for a more listenable album, there are already hundreds of experimental post rock/metal albums that are like that; this is one of a kind. |
