The hour-long LP flies by ... his traditions of jazzy hip-hop and just a smidgeon of dubstep have been tempered into something unbreakable.
The record plots a gorgeous curve from open to close, with earthy drum rolls rubbing up against rusty industrial buzzsaw synths and field recordings serving as segues.
More conceptual than his prior releases, the album is a continuously flowing suite that incorporates many sounds from nature: rainfall, fire, birds, even purring cats.
For many albums, one hour is perfectly acceptable, but on Embers the material proves far too inert and stationary to justify such a length.
This ambient/experimental-house album starts off in a rather entertaining way: a few immersive cuts connect really well to form this spacy, trippy experience that, unfortunately, only last a few moments of the almost 1-hour lenght of its extensive tracklisting. The UK-based producer Throwing Snow deserves the credit for how beautifully he crafts a few of the many electronic compositions of Embers, but it is notable that, as many producers out there do, he struggled a bit when structuring this ... read more
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