Wasatch Front - One Hundred And Thirteen Thousand Eight Hundred And Eighty
Released: January 23 One Hundred And Thirteen Thousand Eight Hundred And Eighty is quite a title to begin with, especially considering the cryptic context we are given before starting the album. But the album is, ostensibly, a story about loss. The title itself alludes to a specified period of time, meant to denote how long something lasted which, in this case, is in hours of happiness for the author. And the sonics of the album match up to this rather sadly reflective title, consisting of mainly sparse and washed out pads combined with muffled recordings of voices or other found noises. There’s a persistent feeling of emptiness that spans the whole runtime, like everything just has this particularly hollow and cold aesthetic to it, which plays well into the themes. The voices are quite persistent throughout as well, usually coming across as conversations between two people or just the random sounds of a TV on in the background. “They know everything” sort of makes us of both, wit...
