Style: ambient, ambient techno
Primary Emotions/Themes: tranquility, meditation, openness
Thoughts: I ended up picking up this album on a whim. I had heard good things about it from multiple people and decided to give it a go.
Amparo's sound can be summarized as such: dreamy ambient pads with various techno and EDM beats underneath. Most of the music here is slow and exceptionally tranquil with piano chords providing most of the melodic structure of the music. This is ambient however so these melodies are long and drawn out, almost to the point where I struggle to call them melodies at all.
While the music is quite dreamy it also lacks a lot of what I would look for in ambient music. For one it's a little too structured for me. It ends up sounding like washed out electronic music rather than ambient or a more standard rendition of the genre. The in between area doesn't do much for me on a personal level.
That said there is quite a bit to like here. Sometimes the music goes either more into the ambient or the more solidified electronic range. When it does the music seems to find itself and I'm able to enjoy it a lot more. On the ambient side the music washes me away into a dreamland where I am able to ruminate with my mind. On the more structured side I'm able to groove to genuinely good melodies and beats. It's a shame that this only happens a few times in the album.
Keep Your Soul Young is ultimately an album that I can't get into on a regular basis. I really wish this wasn't the case as there's some genuinely good music on here. There's just too many other strong albums out there that do this style better (on either side of the spectrum) for me to give this album extended play time.
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