quad comin in as always with some of the most beautifully lush and vibrant production. he's gotten so great at taking tons of different layers and arranging them all into this neat little package that just sounds so GOOD. i could not be more stoked for vanisher to come out.
btw, if you live by any nature at all, listen to this song and take a walk through it. i cannot keep the quadeca nature walks a secret anymore, they're just too good man
everybody that rates a foreign album says this, but i don't care. listening to an album in a language you don't understand is so dope, because you get to really just hyper-focus on the music and see what it does for you. and this album's music is really really good.
except i did look at translations of all the songs' lyrics and holy crap this guy self-deprecates to heck. every single song has incredibly sad lyrics that could not be guessed if you just listened to the music ... read more
there's nothing more to be said than that it's simply entrancing
i've really liked this album for quite a bit now, but one of my weaknesses with music is that i really love to put it in a box and contextualize it to the time i listened to it. for example, some songs i can only listen to during fall because i heard them then and that's when they hit. sadly the same thing happened with vespertine by björk, an absolute masterpiece of an album. i listened to the first half of this album on a night bike ride in the middle of winter. the snow was ... read more