Häxa Komät - Negative Dream Body Tranference

 

Released: October 4

Earlier this year, I listened to Häxa Komät for the first time and found myself entranced by the seemingly ritualistic and rhythmic nature of their first release. This second time around, I heard something a little bit different but still tracking along the same vein as before. With Negative Dream Body Transference, the heaviness is tapered considerably. There is no pervasive and crushing feeling associated with the sound here. Instead, there is something “lighter” but still just as intense. The rhythms ebb and flow to such a great degree, leaving an entire portion of the track open with nothing more than some harmonics and atmospherics to guide us along. But when the rhythms do come back to us, they are soft and instructive, becoming nothing more than an addition to the guided hypnotic state this music conveys. 

Being just a single track, it’s not really appropriate to call this an album. But that point is a bit irrelevant. This release is a true embodiment of a loosely guided meditation. It worldlessly conveys the listener through a semi-dream state, sitting in a strange grey area between subconsciousness, unconsciousness, and consciousness. It is truly hypnotic in all senses of the word.