Style: Drone ambient
Primary Emotions/Themes: Lost in a city composed entirely of neon, rain, and dreams
Thoughts: I truly love ambient music. I fell in love with it years ago when Ulver was starting their wanderings into other genres. I fell off with the genre for many years, until I rediscovered dreampunk in 2019 and 2020. Droidroy ended up becoming a critical part of reinvigorating my love for the genre.
Droidroy creates music that is droney, dreamy, and infused with a large dose of cyberpunk. Like the best ambient it helps me paint a mental picture of the imagery the music is projecting. A direct line from the speakers into my brain as it were.
水中都市 has strong imagery. I'm taken to a place where the world is a bit hazier than the one we live in. A place where reality is a bit more obscured. A place where night always prevails over day. A place where the rain never stops falling. A place where time seems to slow to a crawl. A place where the city is lucid dreaming.
The music itself is just as obscured as the images that it produces. There are melodies here, but they are hard to make out as they are buried deep in the mix behind layers upon layers of ambience and samples. It's a record that truly rewards people who spend time listening actively. People who find value in listening to the album all the way through. It invites the listener in, and does not ever relent in its constant persist of dragging the listener deeper into it's clutches.
Droidroy remains one of my favorite artists associated with the dreampunk microgenre. It's small corner of the internet reminds me of why digging deep into the underground is worth it more often than not. You end up in places like an Underwater City.
Written August 7th 2024
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