Style: Ambient, minimalist
Primary Emotions/Themes: slowly evolving beat driven ambient, immense atmospheres
Thoughts: Descendants is a hard album for me to get through. The music is so emotionally intense that I sometimes have to stop the record and gather myself. Especially on tracks like Undoing.
What makes this album so profound? It's the way the album uses minimalism, it does so much with so little. Let's go back to Undoing for a moment. This track is essentially two instruments the whole time: a keyboard playing a full chord soundscape and a piano. That's all it has... that's all it needs.
The way that the piano plays the melodies is just soul crushing. The single notes that decay into nothingness before the next one comes, it hits me hard every single time I listen to it. The rest of the album utilizes minimalism in a similar fashion. Just enough to get the job done, and never anything more.
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