Transient Cat - Longform Ambient for Troubled Times
Released: February 26 Straightforward in name, Longform Ambient for Troubled Times is true to its premise. A single longform piece clocking in at right around 20 minutes, the piece opens up as anything but soothing. Mechanical noise and garbling of the transmission opens the track up though it’s not exactly harsh. It feels a lot like walking outside during a busy day with all the environmental noise you would expect, just slightly amplified. But then this noise subsides abruptly, leaving us in silence for a short moment until the floating synths come into our ears. The mood of the rest of the track isn’t exactly upbeat or angelic. Reflecting the times it references, dark and foreboding drones slowly creep into the picture, tinting everything in audible hues of light grey and sepia. It quickly becomes apparent that the purpose of this track is not to assuage us in troubled times, but simply to reflect the troubled times. The track slowly evolves from floating omni-frequency ...
