Style: Dungeon Synth
Primary Emotions/Themes: Reading the sacred texts by candlelight
Thoughts: Every now and then there comes an album that is the complete package. The album title fits perfectly, the cover fits perfectly... hell even the record design itself matches the music perfectly. Gelure's The Candlelight Tomes is one such album.
Let us study how this artifact retains such perfect cohesion. Observe the cover, the elderly scholar buried deep in his tomes and scrolls. Searching for knowledge that once was known but has been lost. He searches through them to discover secretes untold. Or perhaps he is imparting his knowledge into a new scroll for future generations? All we are given is the one moment in time and the musical accompaniment.
The Candlelight Tomes, the scriptures that are read by the light of a burning chunk of paraffin wax. The music contained within these forty minutes expertly reflect the sound of scouring through these pages. Reading tales of ancient times, lore long forgotten, times and memories of those who came before.
The wax upon which this tome is inscribed even resembles the light that is cast out by a candle in the dead of night. It radiates out as it would from a central source of light and casts a shadow at the end of the turntable.
The package is so complete, so impeccably detailed that it's become one of my favorite entries into the dungeon synth genre. From a glance this may sound just like another ambient inspired dungeon synth album, but I assure that it is not. The depth of thought that has gone into this package... the artwork, the design of the record, the music itself, hell it even includes a map.
As complete as the visual package is, the missing component is the audio. Sadly I cannot play it through text, but hopefully this small chronicle will give a semblance of the brilliance that is contained within this excellent album.
Written February 20th 2024
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