Adarkah Ianqu stirs dark sounds that melt into the senses. You know this. You've read my reviews.
Today he allowed my ears to dip into deep sleep future {third test}. I don't know all that led to the test or why it happened when it did (2013, evidently), but in Ianqu's inimitable style, it invokes the desperation of failure, buffered by remorseful surprise. Perfect.
The album's initial track, "future's a dark silent room" is vast and poetic in its electronic beats, molding an audible heavenly hell. It burns a hole not only into the mind, but the heart, its electrocution slow but sharp. It presents a bohemian dystopia that might be Orwellian, Huxley-esque or perhaps something extrapolated from the far past: a futuristic Bosch, all wicked, wired and entwined.
For the next-in-line, "thousands of nights completely lost" and "Hanna freaks out and dreams of death", listeners are dealt absurd alibis in light of the future's descent. Among raspy notes, suicide calls, but the required courage (or cowardice) to implement such isn't there.
"Juggling in the cosmic limitation" swings the lament all the higher (or should that be, lower?), creating a beguiling web beyond the stars. We've flaunted our courage and landed, only to discover that something mean and slimy awaits.
The track's clever mate, "stay until daybreak" is earthbound, but no less threatening: a synthesized, help-me-make-it-through-the-vampiric-night. As the coffin dust clears, it becomes frighteningly clear, that a pervading, orgasmic nausea is near.
The next two in queue "echo type diesel" and "the sirens of Jerusalem" are continued pleas, or in the very least ill-planned flights into the danger zone. They hint at a light at the end of the tunnel, of skyscraper aspirations and lofty, political jaunts, but in the end, they're as clammy as Ianqu's previous schemes.
"Seaside mystic silence" and "mystic sunshine" are the album's epilogues: sad and sublime, begging one to bask and bake under their cog-cranked rays, a place where sexy serpents seduce, but also wither and die. This set epitomizes an end to all ends, insisting that no matter how promising a moment may seem, persistent doom and gloom comprise the be-all/end-all reply.
Deep Sleep Future is a lovely way for apocalyptic aficionados to spend a day: another doleful triumph from a man who does doleful in the most identifiable ways:
https://adarcahianku.bandcamp.com/album/from-deep-sleep-future-third-test-approach-2013?fbclid=IwAR37zBGWbO0f_AfuDpMOXe1KTXw7AgM5aeNB5tG0PX1Lbc0kqylJpdjXqN4.
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