ADARKAH IANQU'S FROM DEEP SLEEP FUTURE {FINAL EXCEPTION}: A DOOM AND GLOOM SEQUEL

Last week, I reviewed Adarkah Ianqu's atmospheric deep sleep future {third test}, only to discover that the 2013 album spawned variants.

Deep sleep future {final exception}*14 is an ideal follow-up (released a year after third test), presenting another queue of morose extensions, but for differentiation, it may sport a sharper edge than its predecessor. 

That edge is most prevalent in its opening track, "one night the lies end", which reinstates Ianqu's grim, demanding journey. "One night" is, in essence, a fit (and prickly) overture for the sense-shattering tracks that follow. 

"Imperative emancipation" and "dark cages in future jails" are its suffocating companion pieces, each implying a need to break free, whether among the ranks of reverie or reality. Their milieu keeps one clamped despite all struggle, for as with any Ianqu composition, liberation is at best and most vain.

In the case of "the sirens of Jerusalem will silent forever" (a sequel to the first album's "Jerusalem" track), listeners feel the throes of magnificence purged, only to be returned to the muck. This "Jerusalem" sequel paints a land-of-the-dead expanse, not so much ridden by resurrected raiders, but a stark lack of existence. It's the sort of composition that should prove comforting to anyone who's down and out and maybe even a little lonely.  

"Hannah suicides at the center of her palace" is another third test sequel, which splashes the listener with dreams squashed or maybe worse, never realized. Like its rough sidesteps, "imperative emancipation" and "dark cages", it begs for release, but in a far graver way, forges an unsolvable maze. Life goes on and on and on, though never once with clear intent. 

For the album's epilogues, rebellion rules the roost, for "seaside immortal creatures" and "dead horses teardrops" come with hearts stained by pain, but brimming of bestial lust.

From deep sleep future {final exception} one will see--and hear--only darkness at the end of the winding tunnel. For those of hardened hearts, Ianqu's notes will, therefore, act as empathetic friends for those bad days that never end. 

Face the sequelized doom and gloom at
https://adarcahianku.bandcamp.com/album/from-deep-sleep-future-final-exception-14?fbclid=IwAR37oNQSOlhri4W7rZgFWepdJ2zd3OQA1F339ckk5KYOJQZyizuXvlEVO14.