Style: Signalwave, vaporwave
Primary Emotions/Themes: Short glimpses into different places and things
Thoughts: I don't think I've ever posted a signalwave album prior to this. It's my understanding that signalwave is comprised of short songs that revolve around a single sample or concept. Much like some instrumental hip hop albums out there, there are a ton of tracks with a huge amount of ideas spread throughout.
On Night Coverage there are 27 individual tracks that range from huge orchestral swells to something as simple as a flute playing and a bird chirping. While the individual songs are simple in nature the way that they interact with each other and the way that the album is structured is the real allure and draw of this album for me.
It's not just individual tracks, it's truly an album. The way that this thing weaves in and out of all these small moments in time make the small things start to add up. By the end of the forty minutes or so I feel like I've observed a small snippet of a completely different world.
I've seen how people interact, how they live, how the world operates in a completely different context... just by listening to this album. I have no idea where this country is, I have no idea what it's called but I do know that this is my gateway to it.
Night Coverage has no business being as good as it is. It's too simple, it's too sample based, it's too short. It should be an album I hate. God dammit why do I like this as much as I do? I don't know, and it's time that I stopped asking silly questions and got back to listening.
Written February 22nd 2024
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