genuinely the greatest album ever created. a beautiful mix of orchestral cinematic artcore and heavy experimental textural noise. aspect and viznodes "solo" tracks are fucking incredible, but the features are where this album really shines; goddess moon is a seven minute masterpiece, with some much more neuro bass influence thanks to sleepy and poly, but for me the standout track by FAR is eclipsed plane with zy; the incredible textural noises zy can create are fucking otherworldly ... read more

Marszan

Too much gimmicky cinematic classical, not enough glitch. Considering just how high the user score is I expected more.

2mo

Modestus

So when will these dudes make film soundtracks?

Just like the name suggests, "Fragments" presents a collection of orchestral cinematic pieces that beautifully bind together. Each fragment seems to narrate a wordless story throughout its delicate layers of poignant instrumentation and an overall ethereal atmosphere. Its structure works most effective when you hear the record all the way through, making some tracks a bit hard to appreciate on their own. Still, those separated pieces ... read more

3mo*

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