“In this world a man himself means nothing,” is the opening
message of this new album from Subheim. The slow and melancholic opening is
followed by 'ybe 76' which contains more electronic beats and steps away from
the more common dark ambient sound. The piano tune is perfectly supported by
these beats, so you get a dancable ambient song. 'One Step Before the Exit' only
starts to become interesting after the first half of the song has passed, here
the electronic sounds enter to deviate from the background sound displayed
before. The second half of the track makes up for the first by being very
creative and variable. The cello, violins, and vocals in 'Howl' make this song
stand out from the rest of the album, which mainly makes use of piano and electronic
beats. Subheim shows that this certainly is not the only method they can create
superb songs. 'Hollow' sounds exactly as the title describes, the wailing
female vocals create a feeling of being left in an underground room where only
some strangely distorted sounds from the outside reach. Rightly so this track
appears again as a remix at the end of the album. The last new track of the
album is 'Voces Perdidas' in which some words are sung once again, bombastic
drums create the bass rhythm, enlightened once more by the piano.
Subheim has managed to create a very variable ambient album
in which they show to be capable with both electronic sounds as well as more
classical instruments. The two remixes on the album are of tracks which
certainly deserve to be remixed. All in all a good debut album which maybe even
has the possibility to dance on a few of the tracks. A quality not oftern found
in dark ambient music.
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