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“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.



Band: Subheim(int)
Label: Tympanik Audio
Genre: ambient (ambient / soundscapes / ritual / drones)
Type: cd
Grade: 7.8
Review by: Joost
Website: http://www.subheim.com/

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