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These songs exactly personify the feelings of purposeless wandering. Soaked in reverb, these benign chordings offer serenity, and at no point is there a feeling of any impetus in the progression of the tracks. This is the perfect soundtrack for one who has shirked their mortal bond, and now finds themselves standing in a ghostly, empty shell of this corporeal reality.
Read MoreSubtlety and nuance is a penchant for Caldon Glover, and Metrophagy embraces said methodology with gusto, presenting vistas of flesh entwined with wire… as growing pads and thrums of circuit-bent analog pads swell and ebb, punctuated by stabs and strikes of unknown mechanical percussives.
Read MoreThe concept of the album alone is enough to attract sci-fi music fans, but musically, this soundtrack feels akin to the likes of a darker, moodier Vangelis, and at times a languorous Mick Gordon, producing a grand soundscape that combines flesh and circuit.
Read MoreThere are subtleties to the languorous, tonal directions this album takes, each transition softly flowing into the next refrain, evoking the feeling of being lost in an empty world.
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 MoreRich in detail and texture, with subtle variations and layers that reveal themselves with repeated listens, this album once again displays a natural chemistry of sound which the two acts compliment between each other.
Read MoreThe music creates a vivid sonic landscape that evokes the sci-fi atmosphere and the temporal distortions of the story, furthering the feeling of this being a soundtrack to a movie playing in the imagination, and this is among my personal favorite qualities of albums on Cryo Chamber.
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 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 MoreGdanian has a wholly unique approach to the genre of dark ambient, with a blatant use of electronic voice and overt presence, showcasing an interplay between ambient atmosphere and a cadence that rhythmically pulses in the foreground, yet maintaining the mindset and presence of subtleties.
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 More…a culmination of four hours of Cesare Alexandre’s subtle mastery with his gossamer ambience. Gentle rains and field recordings wrapped in subtle blankets of warm synth pads and soothing atonal raiment abound in this release, reminding us once more of the gentle brilliance of the composer.
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 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 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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