How Much - 083024​.​vacantdreams


 

Released: October 18

A new collaborative project between Cosmo Fenn and Thor Maillet (aka Petridisch), How Much’s debut album is a dark and atmospheric little saunter into brooding textures, odd field recordings, and uncomfortable aura. Everything here feels rather cold in tone and has a certain quality that I wouldn’t quite call lo-fi, but something more akin to degraded. It gives off a vibe like watching an old sci-fi horror flick on a VHS that has been played to the point that it barely wants to function though it simply keeps the quality of such a replay device, rather than leaning into vaporwave cliches. 

It starts out with “(accretion),” a track that drones rather continually in the background as various little bits come in to join the drone such as a lightly plucked guitar that is just barely distinguishable as such due to the generous amounts of reverb and low spoken and indiscriminate voices that provide the slightest bit of chatter. This established motif is followed rather closely through the rest of the album with variations. As the album progresses, the oddities and artifacts pile on to one another, creating more complex and no less ambiguous than soundscapes. “(The scattered disk)” takes this amalgamated weirdness into more and more difficult territory with guitars that randomly reverse and echoed voices that stack up in a messy dogpile of over lapping words. 

At just shy of forty-five minutes,  083024​.​vacantdreams makes use of its not excessively long runtime to slowly meander into varying depths of weirdness. It makes it difficult to categorize, but also sonically novel in many ways, most not notably in its use of heavily distorted and manipulated voices. 


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