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"Monster" is the opener to this album, and a low-passed square-wave melody plays along with a low chip bass, which is soon accompanied by a low-passed arpeggio. It becomes apparent that low-pass is being removed as another melody comes in. Soon, there is a c…
4Vesta – Static EP
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Mid-paced drums play a simple beat and a brass-like guitar tone does a simple melody, and then the guitar plays chords softly as ethereal vocals come in, with the bass guitar leading. Soon, string-like keyboards come in and play with the vocals and bass, lead…
Small Scale Collisions – Deploy Face Parachutes
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Indistinct voices fade in, and along with them distorted guitar is played with a delay pedal with taps that don't fade out very fast that allows it to harmonize with itself, creating a jumble of sound that isn't completely without time signature due to the del…
Midwife – Forever
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The first track, "2018" begins, and minor arpeggiated piano chords play with some tonal guitar noise in the background. Soon, ethereal, feminine vocals come in, sing for four bars, and then a soft drum beat is played as a guitar plays a mo…
Endless Melancholy – Escapist Sessions
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"Long Days" starts out with synth brass playing underlying drones and a melody. The drones alternate between two notes, back and forth. Over this the melody develops, starting out simple and becoming quite complex. Another synth plays with the melody and the…
Tom Cadillac – Jaw of the mouth
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"Unequal house" begins this release. Low fidelity, out of sync distorted synths play, as if competing for space. One of them starts playing higher notes, and the other follows. The melodies become more complex, as they rise above the surface and then rest fo…
Simon McCorry – The Light Only Blinds
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“Sanctus” begins, and an ambience which seems based on an organ, but is harsher in tone plays and then drones. After a while a synth pad slowly fades in, which morphs and becomes distorted and seems to provide contrast to the original organ.…
Hyloiriscope – Fluxus
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“Fluxus I” begins with vibraphone arpeggios with low, pulsing, distorted bass in the background that soon is accompanied by some semi-tonal “laser”-like noise. The vibraphone breaks into a solo melody that repeats itself, and a swelling…
Jason Lescalleet – The Feckless Dreamer
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In this release, the first track is called “The Salmon Falls River”. In it, there is the sound of water flowing. Then, there are footsteps, a crash, the rustle of leaves, the cracking of twigs, but soon just the sound of flowing water remai…
Ingrid Plum – Dulme EP
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“Air” begins with the sound of symphonic music just at the edge of discernibility in the mix, and the sound of leaves rustling in trees can be heard. There is another rustle, and the wind picks up, rustling more leaves, then dies down again…