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The 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 MoreThe use of modular synthesis gives the music a warm and organic feel, while also adding complexity and unpredictability, an underlying circuitry to the pads and evolving textures that seamlessly weave throughout the music. The scope and breadth of the shifting tracks create a film in the mind’s eye, which is precisely what albums of this type are meant to do, and the film created by this album is rife with sci fi elegance and dark grandeur.
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 More[The Weight of Regression is] a languid fresco of chorded pads and somber keys, lilting between ominous mood and atonal ambivalence.
Read MoreTribal drums pound loud and deep through the tracks of the album, their dolorous, martial cadence a lumbering, kinetic propulsion drawing you inexorably closer to the rituals and practices within this primordial forest, but never in a hurry, nor in any perceptible rush - rather, this album moves of a whim all its own, slowly drawing the listener into its mysteries.
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 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.
Read More…a collaboration between Dronny Darko and Ugasanie. Dronny Darko’s genius sound design is coupled with the ice cold proclivities of Ugasanie to deliver a frozen narrative of Lovecraftian and existential sci-fi adventure.
Read More…his use of analog synths coupled with his style of presentation help this album create a serene fresco of slow-moving ambience, painting vistas of stars and nebulae, of silent planets in distant star systems, orbiting in celestial solitude. Musically, this album has a very cinematic feel, but more as a background piece, reminiscent of a late 1970s to early 1980s sci-fi film.
Read More…six tracks of perfect narrative sound design and soundscapes - ultimately this album accomplishes exactly what was intended: a sci-fi epic that can only be realized through the imaginations of the listener and Soludenia has excelled in that.
Read MoreA true master of the atmospheric craft, Tom Moore has crafted subdued drones and pads, muted percussions and soft strings, muffled basses and field recordings… A perfect convergence of imaginative storytelling and purposeful atmospheric sound design, this is the soundtrack to a modern noir/thriller film in the listener’s imagination, and I cannot recommend this album enough.
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