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vignettes of the apocalypse

by durianhead

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nascence the progression this has is great, starting with quite rhythmic and tame tracks then slowly ramping up throughout the album to finally arrive at the chaotic, noisy and climactic peak that is, "the world collapses unto itself". this album is such a cool auditory experience if you just give it the time to progress - really encaptivating listen that I recommend to anyone (even people that don't listen to a lot of ambient music)! Favorite track: the world collapses unto itself.
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they build. they plan. the world will become perfect now. the leaves sway and flicker gently within the wind. a strain of birdsong flits in and out of existence. the bicycles blow by in the noonday afternoon light, their frames shiny and opaque and fizzling. the ground begins to shake. the planning is done. the building, has begun. all will go to plan. everything is okay. the sun begins to drag and pull itself across the sky, spilling bleeding entrails of a new world across the shifting stratosphere, compounding conflagrations burning all that is here and now to the ground. the sidewalks begin to curve up, up, up; the asphalt dripping and ricocheting into a million different shattered fragments of color and light and smoke. the ground opens its maw. geological stratum as old as time itself slither and worm their way into the abyss. the air is thick, the air is crackling, the air is suffocating. the leaves levitate and move sideways through it like honey. the buildings reshape themselves, build themselves, mold, themselves into a greater image. everything can be seen. everything will be beautiful. time splinters, glittering fragments of reality now a remnant a relic a lost beautiful ugly thing with the trivialities of mortal meaning left behind, spinning around within the colour, the light, under the all-seeing sun. the world is caving in on itself what we know and what we don't and everything bright and beautiful and in between is collapsing onto itself, coalescing into a singular immaculate horizon from which nothing will return. everything is near and everything is far and everything is going to be okay. everything is going to be okay. everything is going to be okay.

about

something near and dear to me. i started composing and recording this in 2019, blissfully unaware that in the following years, the premise of the album would only become more and more apt. this was never meant to be an album that reflected the state of the world or something like that; but between the covid-19 pandemic and the various systemic injustices and atrocities rearing their ugly heads worldwide, it feels like the apocalypse is very much underway.

on a more personal level, the latter half of 2019 and the entirety of 2020 was very much a personal apocalypse in its own right. in a way, this album ended up being a reflection of my emotional response - my desire to hit a certain catharsis, express all the negative feelings that were wracking me in a way that words simply couldn't. i wanted to express my anger, stress and sadness through blasts of noise, waves of distortion and monolithic walls of ambient, droning sound.

however, as much as this is a record that was composed, recorded and produced in a series of compounding negative states, i don't think it is a fatalistic, defeatist album. there is a certain hope, i feel, in discordance and noise - a catharsis, reflecting and yet retaliatory. baked into its very nature is a certain empowering force, a primal aggression, a desire to fight. and in a period of time where the desire to keep fighting on day to day is incredibly miniscule, i hope these vignettes help carry some of that force onward, in the same way that the creating process of this album has pushed me to keep moving.

a thanks extends to everyone I know who has genuinely and continuously supported me, and my desire to create things that people may enjoy.

-durian

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released May 14, 2021

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