This album is one of a kind, is expertly crafted and varied in sounds, melodies, combinations, beats is unreal. The "Renaissance" vibe this album gets states how this album is being presented: As a new way to see music in some sorts, giving the most nostalgic, charming and classical tunes with a lot of idm, glitch hop, jazz, folk inspirations that works so well.

This album got a lot in common (at least in composition) to Cosmogramma, getting that huge ... read more

funklildim

this album mostly sounds like a hip-hop album that would have been made in 1902, but it was released exactly in 2002, which is amazing, that slaps. still sleeping on gem

LemonBoy

I don't know why bother with the first two songs, honestly just skip them, there's no point in listening to them, because what comes next is so much fucking better. I don't even know how it makes me feel, it's just good. It's kinda like Cosmogramma's 70-year old grandfather, it's like a cosmic opera, but this one enboldens a certain feeling of isolation and uneasiness, like you're floating in space. Or maybe like industrial London, on paper a city of progress, but in reality a harbinger of new ... read more

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