RL Huber - Themisto
Released: January 9 RL Huber is well-known for his cinematic soundscapes that evoke a variety of emotional reactions. For Themisto , he wields this compositional skill for evoking darkly-lit scenes filled with tension and dread across twelve tracks. It opens up with “Aquifer” in a rather soft and foreboding manner, with spaced out rises that set a foggy atmosphere. But by the second track, “Perilous Landing,” the tension comes into full swing as immense pads and textures fill up the soundscape to be joined by massive hits that evoke scenes of massive pieces of machinery colliding. These two themes emerge repeatedly throughout the album, alternating between a foreboding dread and explicit tension that never fully releases. The persistent dread and tension sounds like a combination that would make for a deeply uncomfortable listen. However, there is this sense of overarching calm that keeps things grounded throughout which sometimes becomes more explicit, if only momentar...
