Very interesting debut.
The only real issues I have with the album are just what’s expecting from finding your footing in music. Some pitchy vocals, some choppy production, just some little spotty bits here and there. I also don’t think the necessarily needed to be 52 minutes. "Anam Cara" kind of sums up what I don’t love about the project. It feels a bit aimless and like it doesn’t really rise in tension. I like the drums, it’s not a bad song, it just doesn’t feel complete in some way.
Besides some small nitpicks, this album is very unique and creative. The atmosphere is really great. I thought from the opening track that this would be a full vibey instrumental, classical type album, but as the album went on, it just kept getting more varied and interesting. There’s some very simple guitar heavy folk songs like the closer, "Learn Song", there’s the aforementioned orchestral compositions with piano and strings. There’s also some sick synth stuff and wild futuristic chip tuney sounds that start to pop in "Blue Grotto". There’s some really cathartic moments of heavy distortion during climactic parts of the 10 minute epic, "The Haiku" and during the height of the penultimate track, "Update: Owain Glyndŵr Dead Again!". There’s just a really varied soundscape that pulls from a lot of genres blended together while still feeling relatively cohesive. That’s also due to some recurring motifs like the calming water running sound effects that pop in a few tracks. Just a really neat album. I like it a lot.
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