I uploaded LBTS to Soundcloud a while ago and people seemed to really like it - personally, I thought it worked as a nice breather in the album before going back to the more guitar-oriented tunes, but I can totally get why it might not resonate in the same way as some of the other tunes. Really interesting to hear that you're not too keen on Sunset Wonderland and Look Beyond The Past in particular, I've sent the album to a few people as I've been working on it over the years (I like to pester), and SW tends to be a bit of a Marmite track. Well done! (I realize this might be interpreted as damning with faint praise, so let's just say that if you cut "Sunset." and "Look Beyond." I wouldn't hesitate to call it "Superb")īlimey, thanks for the detailed write-up - lots to unpack there! Thanks for taking the effort to put that together, I really appreciate it! I don't always find it engaging on an emotional level (this is mostly down to taste) but when I do it is inspiring, evocative, beautiful, and (indeed) timely. A lot of skill and attention clearly went into sound design and mixing, that part is spectacular. Overall though, this was an excellent album. Ok, that's kind of harsh but I'm trying to articulate the quality of what is lacking here, rather than the extent to which it is. It's like you sending your best mate a big, expensive, glossy postcard with dolphins and "best of luck, Adam" written on it, after his dog just died.
it's kind of trite, listless, new agey even. On your best tracks, it's not a problem because there's more than enough there for the music to be very engaging. "Look beyond The Past": if there's one general criticism of your music I would have, is that with the grand vistas comes a certain emotional distance. "The Great Spark" The ever-so-slightly ravey synths here gave the track a slow-motion-prodigy type feel. If this is what takes you back, make what takes you forward next. "Takes me Back" Awesome broken-style beat makes the rhythm here feel exciting. Of the longer, grander tracks I liked the best: In fact, I would like to solicit "Sunset Something" as my 2-word review. There was also a track with a 4/4 beat, Sunset something, which I found less successful (the track sounds ok but the beat feels like a fairly dry and rudimentary club house/garage type beat that clashed with the rest of the track/album). "Rural Chill" I liked as well, both of these tracks remind me of those few "slight glimmer of hope" tracks that FSOL dotted throughout "Dead Cities". I suppose a slight decline is in some way preferable to a collapse, so the name still fits. In particular I found 'Slight Decline' to be fairly uplifting highlight. There were some deviations from this general picture. So far, I'd say that's music for the times indeed. I am an awestruck but otherwise mostly impartial observer in this, taking stock of the passing of things, but hardly understanding it at a human level. I think the album art is aptly chosen as during most of the album I felt like I was standing on top of a precipice, surveying a great cataclysm below me, a beautiful but also deadly collapse. Breaking News: in a shocking turn of events, Adam Fielding, musician, has revealed himself to be The Destroyer. Only everything is slowed down to a very solemn pace, like I'm watching the final boss fight in extreme slow motion. I came here pretty much straight from watching a Doom Eternal video on youtube, and in terms of atmosphere and intensity the first track slid right in there without much of a break in musical atmosphere. So I took a listen to this in its entirety, and here's just some fairly random comments/observations: I'd love to know what you think of it if you decide to give it a spin, and I hope you're all staying safe wherever you are. Funny how things have changed! That said, I ended up bringing a lot of that stuff over from Studio One once VST support became available in Reason to give myself a bit more control over proceedings.
The bulk of the album was made using Reason, though as a consequence of it being produced before VST support was a thing I ended up using Studio One to sequence certain elements (which were then bounced and brought into Reason). In a way I think it works as a neat companion piece to one of my earlier albums called Pieces, and I think the spontaneous nature of its original creation had a bit to do with that.
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I'm still working on making it available for streaming outside of Bandcamp, but right now you can stream & download it in the format of your choice via my Bandcamp page.Īs far as what it sounds like, it relies a bit more on organic/live instrumentation than a lot of my more recent releases, though it's still primarily an electronic album.
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