This album demands your full attention. It demands that you marvel at its beauty and intricacy, its lush arrangements and poetry, and its emotional depth. With each listen you will discover something new, whether it is realising that the song that bored you a little last time is actually the greatest piece of music ever written, or really noticing the subtle harp arpeggios for the first time and following their path as they weave through the fabric of each song, colouring it in a vibrancy you ... read more
Maruja continue to provide us with great music with their latest release ‘The Vault’ featuring an arrangement of jam sessions recorded between 2021 and 2023. As the band writes on their Bandcamp, this gives us a glimpse into how they craft their songs, improvising and jamming together without any presets and just letting the ideas flow and then later turning some of those ideas into tunes. For example, to me it sounds like some parts of the saxophone section in the first half of ... read more
Parannoul Discography Deep-Dive #01
The Blue Cat wanders. It strays from its usual paths and finds itself in new surroundings, streets yet unexplored. Brandnew impressions, almost overwhelming, are flooding in. Further under the sparse street lights and the shadows cast by bushes, trees and cars it wanders, around the next corner, which is a little dark and scary, into yet another new world...
"Let's Walk on the Path of a Blue Cat" is the first album released by South Korean ... read more
Goes insanely hard. Gets a little bit unfocused and too rough around edges in the second half, at least for my liking, but the first couple of tracks are amazing. It starts as fun and groovy noise-rock and then slowly descends into more and more of a repetitive mess, not entirely for me but I will definitely return to those first three songs
I don't know where I am.
It's dark down here. I feel nothing - no wisp of air on my skin, no breath in my lung, no sound in my ears. Even my own thoughts feel distant. I try to grab onto anything, any memory, any conscience that I am actually here, whereever "here" is. I fail.
Despair starts to make its way towards me again, but I have grown too numb to care. When it feels like you have been and will forever be a captive of this endless emptiness, you simply stop caring. ... read more