Submitted by thebiggesthater420 t3_10r98xr in Music
So I discovered this album in early 2022 after going through some lists of greatest 90s albums. Ever since then I’ve been completely obsessed with it.
It is, without a doubt, the most atmospheric and immersive album I’ve probably ever heard. From beginning to end, it wraps you in this inky black embrace. It legit feels like the soundtrack to a weird nightmare you can’t wake up from. But it’s also kind of…really sexy and sensual in a dark and eerie kind of way. The production is just nuts. I’ve been listening to it with some high end headphones and man, you can just get totally lost in these songs. There’s just so much going on but at the same time, the songs on the surface sound sparse and minimalistic. The vibes, as the kids say, are immaculate.
I’ve been reading some reviews of the album here and there and it seems like the consensus is that the opening quartet of songs is the peak of the album, and I really can’t disagree. That stretch of Angel-Risingson-Teardrop-Inertia Creeps is just mind-blowing. The rest of the album is actually incredible as well but these first four songs are just on another level. Really though, this is all-killer, no filler. Every track is really, really good even at their worst and I’d probably put The Man Next Door up there with the first four tracks.
It’s crazy how this album sounds out of time almost - like nothing else I’ve heard in the eras before or since it came out. It is very much its own thing - a darkly beautiful epic.