Laurel Halo

Atlas

Laurel Halo's Atlas is a 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱:

... One thing about Laurel Halo, she never made the same album twice. Throughout her decade long career, Laurel Halo has made a name for herself as one of the most eccentric music experimentalist working right now even when she spend most parts of her discography dabbling on subtle electronica and strange ambient. Atlas is nothing new of an addition to her discography, in a sense that it's also an entirely ... read more

There was the boat incident. Your body somehow ended overboard. You don’t remember the accident. In fact, you don’t remember anything. You lie unconscious at the bottom of the sea. Your subconscious takes over the last few minutes you have to possibly live. Dreams emerge. Ones coincidentally of sea experiences. Ones you’ve never lived. Ones of mesmerizing, glittery undersea castles, mermaids, and gods. You’ve slowly emerged with the memories, becoming less and less ... read more

Atlas’s album cover illustrates the beauty of what you’ll find ahead of it, movement so intense and sudden that colours fuzz together in a blur. The songs only elevate this feeling, adding a haunting feeling that thrives in a minimalist landscape.

My familiarity with Laurel Halo goes about as far as her debut Quarantine, an album that lives to be somewhat of a distant cousin to Atlas. The two albums being 11 years apart have clear differing qualities but share a connection to one ... read more

It's fine, not my cup of tea I guess. Rather boring ambience in my opinion, like, nothing special to this but not bad. If you like ambient check it out, but if you don't, then stay far away from this, this is not the record to change your mind.