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Musically, this is a relaxed, neo-jazz ambient excursion into atmospheric palates - never once does this album try to take center stage in the mind of the listener, but rather, it is meant to be played in the periphery of the imagination, allowing the mind to wander to the neon-ridden gloom of this darkly-envisioned Las Vegas.
Read MoreEach track of the album weaves a tapestry of soundscapes, evoking both unsettling and calming emotions, sometimes, though, even hinting at eldritch presences, providing a touch of the uncertain - a tremulous dread that is unavoidable when contemplating the vast emptiness of outer space…
Read MoreThe music is the brilliance of Dead Melodies come to the fore, with reserved pads, delicate plucks in cadenced patterns, all slowly evolved to be a blanketing soundscape for the listener to enjoy the soundtrack while their imagination explores the storyline of the album.
Read MoreKnown for his ability to craft otherworldly atmospheres, Metatron Omega delves even deeper into the concepts of theological and interpersonal inference, mixed with the timbre of abyssal and cosmic aesthetics with Kataphasis.
Read MoreThese tracks are an amalgamation of ambient texture, orchestral prose at times, and even Berlin school stylings - reminiscent of Klaus Schulze - while at the same time maintaining its cinematic ambience and soundtrack feel.
Read More“…the transitions between the evolving pads are delicate, and never washed with excessive reverb; rather, each element is handled with a deft craftsmanship, and the subtle and delicate mix gives each song an intimate feel.”
Read MoreCryo Chamber has an inimitable capability of presenting trepidatious moods coupled with mystery and compulsion to explore further, and the Tomb Series has excelled in its presentations…
Read MoreSometimes dark, many times dreamy, these tracks are each wholly unique, and yet collectively blend to create a comfortable blanket of evolving sonic textures that slowly massage the transom…
Read MoreBeautiful choir pads and layers hover about, while field recordings keep the listener tethered to the ground; a desolate expanse, alien, and filled with life, and the entire album keeps the feeling of mystery present throughout
Read More[The Weight of Regression is] a languid fresco of chorded pads and somber keys, lilting between ominous mood and atonal ambivalence.
Read MoreThese are sounds that echo to the listener from beyond the veil of time, and the album does an excellent job of presenting this aesthetic, as if the listener were in a trance, and hearing fleeting remembrances of notes and stanzas in the transom of forgotten history.
Read MoreMoallem (God Body Disconnect) and Boström (Cities Last Broadcast/Kammarheit) are both masters of their craft, and this album lends evidence to their finesse with formulating subtle atmospheres of sonic ambiguity.
Read MoreInspired distorted drones and amorphous rhythms pulse in much the same way as the slimed and effluvial striations along the corridors of this hellish cave wherein we traverse, these melodies are organic, but they are also manufactured, the copper-tinged electronic taste of wiring stinging the peripheral of the mind’s palate.
Read More…an excellent showcase of talent in the Cryo Chamber roster, and as mentioned above, the eight artists on this collaboration are known for their penchant with weaving analog and synthetic textures with a decided retro aesthetic.
Read MoreThe music of Dahlia's Tear is as insightful as it is masterful, and Tales from a Feeble Dream is just as one would expect from such a talented composer; a rich exploration of melancholic sound and atmosphere.
Read MoreThis album contains the filtered, slow resonance of the universe all throughout, with doldrum pads and airy stabs of synths that help the mind drift along the currents of nebulae; Delicate oscillations trickle through the low rumblings like telemetry data proceeding through the vacuum of space, with heavy sub bass rising and falling intermittently to help create the sense of cosmic scale that we lack through our limited human perspective.
Read More[Keosz] soundtrack work in Neven is nothing short of inspired genius, and his style of subtle drones and intermittent piano motif as a focal point works immaculately with the movie…
Read MoreSleepy Town of Winter both continues a previous narrative, as well as carries that oblique story arc with it… a measured continuance of the Murken Hollow storyline given to us in November of 2022, a dreamy, lackadaisical meandering of sound design and smooth jazz over a noir, almost horror-adjacent backdrop.
Read MoreRuptured World delivers a thoughtful and imaginative ambient adventure, similar in some regards to other offerings on the Cryo Chamber label, yet wholly unique and stylized that make Alistair Rennie one of the best visionaries of the genre.
Read MoreThe Lovecraft compilations have become… a showcase of individual talent from the various artists associated with the label, while also being exemplary pieces of collaboration, weaving the delicate nuance of each musical vision into one longform narrative.
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