Saṃsāra

This is a bit too hazy and uneventful for my own liking to really blow me away, but this album definitely isn't bad; I just struggle to feel much when listening to it. This isn't a pleasurable numbness, mind you; it's boredom. I do appreciate the brief moments of glitch amongst the somewhat elongated runtime of this album (relative to its seven tracks, which greatly vary in length), however, but they do come across as somewhat aimless to me. Not super enthusiastic about this one, but all the ... read more

the beginning and end of samsara both have a gorgeous neo-psychedelia sound, with "alien interference blues" and "on the mountain" being some of the most memorable tracks i've heard in the week or so that 2020 has been a thing, but the middle of the album is really lacking in substance and ideas.