tldr; I fucking hated this thing so goddamn much that it left me with a headache. And not in a good way.



I hate to be that guy, but there is nothing for me on this 4 hour album. My first thought was "oooo this sound ugly and menecing, I wonder how this will change throughout the 4 hour runtime!". Optimistic I was. It didn't change. In fact, it stayed the same. For four hours.

It's a boring, annoying, brain numbing experience that I will never come back to, not even by force. Some of the sounds are cool in places, but it just keeps going and going and going with nothing to cling me to the experience. It's less of an album and more like torture for the modern age. It's music only by definition. There are times where there are musical points that are interesting or unique, but then it stretches it to the point of annoyance.

One of the biggest problems with this album for me is its lack of purpose. It's a directionless mess of a record that pretty much has nothing to say except "mmm noise music is cool". And when that's your entire musical statement and that statement goes on for 4 GODDAMN HOURS, then you really should really refine that statement, or add something of substance to it. Hell, tangable or meaningful titles could be a nice touch, just give me SOMETHING! But no, it just creates one interesting idea and just stretches and stretches and keeps on stretching until eventually your brain snaps and your brain just accepts it as background noise and tries to tune it out. What could have been a nice track becomes 23 minutes of fucking nothing, and then that nothingness becomes a headache, and by the end of it all you feel as if your less human by the end of it.

But that's not even the worst part about it. No no no. You know what the absolute worst part about this album is? I don't remember a single thing about it. After being annoyed, angry, sad and blisteringly bored, I have nothing to come out of this experience with. It's a cold, sad, husk of a electronic album that barely even exists, yet still manages to overstay it's welcome. It's just so overbloated and boring, even as individual EPs. I tried my hardest to find something, ANYTHING that I truly felt was great or worth the 4 hour run-time, but no. It's just boring, unmemorable, annoying noise music that goes on for way longer then it should.

My main reason to listening to experimental music in the first place is for the...well...experimentalness of it all. When I listen to something that's a little more extreme, I often find myself coming back to experimental acts who either provide quirky oddness, interesting musical passages, ideas, themes, instrumentation, and plain what the fuckery you wouldn't find anywhere else, OR I listen to it for it's drop dead beauty, its gorgeous arrangement, it's captivating lyricism or it's steller production. And while the production on this album is decent, that's all it is. A bloated stain of decent production that left me with a headache. And maybe that's why i'm so angry with this album. It's only contribution to my consciousness is that it hurt. It hurt to listen to.

And I know for a fact that's one of the big reason people come to this album. 'It's intentionally cold and hallow and meaningless! That's the genius of it!'. Just because something is intentional in it's intent does not make it any less or more of a good experience for me.

It might seem harsh to give this album a zero. After all, it's well produced enough to warrant at lest one digit or one point. But, at the end of the day, it's only contribution to my phyce is pain, negativity and nothingness. It's a painful, irritating experience I wouldn't wish on my worst enemies. Maybe I just don't understand the complexities of avant garde electronica, but there is nothing for me here. Literally nothing. In fact, less then nothing. It's four hours of my time GONE. WASTED. NEVER TO BE RETRIEVED. GONE BURGER. DEAD.

You might say: Wow, this review went on for way too long, I don't feel as if that was worth it.

Then now you know how I feel.



Favorite Jams: N/A



Lest Favorite: literally every song longer then 20 minutes.