Vorso's debut LP, sitting at an hour and half in length, should have been doomed to overambition, yet it manages to escape that fate by very smooth pacing and near-immaculate production.
In the beginning it's a very lowkey record, everything feels very relaxed while still being highly textured and engaging. In the second half we start to get more of that intense Vorso sound we're used to at this point, but executed in a pretty fantastic way. All of this culminates on one of ... read more
Kind of insane how an EDM album this long (length of ur average movie) doesn't get tiresome or devolve into disposable loud nonsense. You'll find plenty of comments of mine on edm projects stating that this type of in-your-face drop-centric music works best in ep format, and when stretched to albums almost always reveals the intrinsic hollowness of the whole thing. Not Holonomy. The thing is, this is heavy bass music touching on most genres I talk abt here ad nauseam but somehow it doesn't feel ... read more
| 1 | Badlands 5:13 | 89 |
| 2 | Business As Usual 2:48 | 92 |
| 3 | Staycation 5:35 | 91 |
| 4 | Chef's Suggestion 5:15 | 85 |
| 5 | Coastline Paradox 3:35 | 85 |
| 6 | Facets 2:21 | 92 |
| 7 | Power Through 3:17 | 85 |
| 8 | Weirdzone 3:36 | 87 |
| 9 | Arps 5:06 | 90 |
| 10 | Big Drum 4:27 | 92 |
| 11 | Palindromes 3:47 | 92 |
| 12 | Dockyards 3:35 | 95 |
| 13 | Holonomy 5:12 | 93 |
| 14 | Shroud 8:00 | 92 |
| 15 | Listening Station 4:50 | 92 |
| 16 | Offshore Platform 6:41 | 95 |
| 17 | Searcher 3:42 | 90 |
| 18 | Tricks 4:01 | 90 |
| 19 | The Lighthouse 4:14 | 89 |
| 20 | Penrose Staircase 6:00 | 88 |