This is easily one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever listened to.
There's nothing exact to convey the concept of nostalgia for places that exist outside of reality and are psychological. Rook, in her Bandcamp description, sums up the EP as "partly an attempt to synthesize one of those places, and partly a nostalgic reflection on some of the ones that i already know of." There's a digital sugar-y atmosphere to all four songs, in a glaze that makes shoegaze proud. There's ... read more
Rook is showing great progress as a songwriter, with this being a dramatic change in pace from 2,020 Knives this year. It's more fuzzy and compressed than rook and black dresses' other work, but she brings really strong melodies and production to back up this change in style.