Style: dungeon synth
Primary Emotions/Themes: dramatic compositions that sound like they could be a video game soundtrack
Thoughts: There are some things in this life that we do not mesh with. Sometimes an album and I are at completely different ends of the spectrum. Unfortunately Schemer Heer's The Dragon, His Angels and the Exaltation is one of those albums.
The music present on this album is technically excellent. I've heard stuff like this in multiple video game soundtracks. It sounds like a dramatic boss fight or epic dungeon music throughout its run time. The keyboards used to play the music are also well produced, everything is executed to near perfection. I can see the care and love that went into this album and it pains me that I can't garner enjoyment out of it.
What really irks me about my inability to get into this album is that it draws heavily from my favorite RPG soundtrack: Final Fantasy VI. There are so many moments here where I'm whisked back to playing that game, yet I still can't get into the album. The music simply does. not. click.
This is part of the joy yet also part of the pain of listening to music: it's entirely subjective. While I can appreciate this music for what it is, I cannot enjoy this music for what it is. I've listened probably a dozen times at the point of this writing and the album and I simply are not compatible. Fortunately for me there are enough albums out there that I can enjoy to not let this be too much of a detriment.
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