PretentiousNerd

First of all, thank you @Lurnatic for recommending your work.
First of all, the first track made me smile so hard. I just couldn't help myself loving it. I am new to this kind of music and it hit me like a truck. I am aware of Drum and Bass, but this record felt like something I've never experienced this way and it is almost hypnotic. The hour of runtime went by like nothing and yet, the beats still stuck to my head. I am really glad to have listened to it.

Easily my favorite Album by Basement. It has the right amount of Grunge and melancholy. The singing is raspy and longing enough to grasp your heart, but not too much, that it feels artificial. The whole album is filled with relatively simple but effective lyrics in a way, Basement never managed to reproduce again. All in all a very amazing album I would recommend to anyone at least a bit interested in alternative music.

This whole project kinda feels unfinished. I do like my Midwest Emo to be a bit lo-fi sometimes, but it doesn't FEEL intentional here. As much, as I like some Ideas in this record, I won't get warm with it. That's not to say, that there aren't parts, I don't enjoy. The instrumentation itself is very fun. It just needs a certain something to become something I'd want to come back to.

Pretty easy listening, even for atmospheric black metal. But that's what I've come to expect and enjoy from Ellende. This record still doesn't hold up too much to their early work but is enjoyable nonetheless. Ellende know what they are capable of and continue to do so. I just wished, they expanded their horizon a little more. What I've got was, what I like about them and I am happy.