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There is something excitingly visceral about the imitation work the noise synthesis is doing on this one, courtesy of Void Puppet. It imitates power tools, sirens, voices, all in an interplay. And Maxwell provides a nice busy percussive soup for the noise work to germinate in.

Track 5 "I Got Pickled At the Wawa General Store" really had me going. The way the vocoder sounding synth transitioned into a whaling siren was strangely compelling. It triggered something primal in me. A ... read more

Certainly, when I first heard White Ceiling many years ago it was a sort of revelation. Never have I heard something so grand in music before it. And so, curious after a couple listens, I looked up the lyrics. They almost ruined the song for me, but I stopped reading a few sentences in. Self deprecation was a foreign, unpleasant concept to think about back then. It's still is, honestly. I don't really enjoy this song thematically or aesthetically all that much. It's sort of ... read more

I liked Kozu Island and Metal a lot. Otherwise, Impulse is very disappointing. Most of these songs are very generic Yosi Horikawa beats where acoustic samples play very rudimentary roles. I see no improvement over Yosi's previous releases.

I listened to the entire thing thinking it was a solo project by some progressive jazz loving DAW compositor. Even after finding out this artist is a band - the drums, piano, and honestly all other instruments still sound programmed. The entire thing is mixed very flatly, focusing mostly on composition, the process of music. It's very laid back, and for the most part very unassuming. I really enjoyed how sincerely they present all the sounds: acoustic instruments, orchestral synths and ... read more