○ Jul 2025 | Label: Independent
■ Genres: Drone / Experimental
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “haze“
► Is meditation nothing more than the highest and/or the most desperate form of distraction? This is what this track asks. Is the gradually deconstructed pulsation of the minor guitar phrase an invitation to merge with the world or to alienate ourselves in the dark? We still don’t know.
[1. IDEA]
■ The A. O.: The track from “gateway” that we prefer is “how to get away“. Can you tell us how it came to light?
► Passage: “How to get away” is the only song on the album that was recorded in separate sections. The first of the two sections has the only original sound on the album that doesn’t come from a guitar or a synthesizer, instead, what you’re hearing is a music box being played very slowly through a pedalboard. In an earlier version of the track, there was a short acoustic song during the intro, and the track was called “waves” in reference to one of the lyrics. Like the rest of the tracks, I came up with the final title while uploading the album to bandcamp. The title “how to get away” represents, at least for me, the existential dread of living under the American regime.
[2. CREATION]
(more…)○ March 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.6/10
■ Favorite track: “how to get away“
► We are alone in the middle of the storm. Resistance is useless, surrender is sweet. So let us fall to infinity, disperse without guilt or hope, into oblivion.