Bold yet placid is this creation called Quantumnaut: an inspiring, debut album by the experimental wonder, NXPTNE (produced no less than by the innovative Musica Orizzantale).
Per clever allusion, Quantumnaut is akin to a religious/alien merger: reminiscent of "CE3K'"s finale, where science and religion are as one. The album strokes one's mind, while cradling one's spirit with chapters that invoke children's carols and carefree whims and therefore, comprises a purifying anthology that ascends straight from an unfettered subconscious.
The title track captures this with awesome accuracy, even if it comes a tad farther down the album's line. For this particular composition, NXPTNE presents a sounding board that demands transformation through grace and a need for forgiveness: not only for oneself, but for anyone who's caused one harm. It's a heavy ejection, but one that oils the spine, inducing a reverent rest before an imminent storm.
"Godseeker's Crib" is a precursor to this concept: a subtle salutation for those who know something's awry, but can't yet say how or why. In this exacerbating submission, there are traces of the strange, with lush noises that invoke the soundtracks of "Last Cannibal World" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", though devoid of that set's virulent culminations. This "crib" is calm and wide, making a promise that no matter how off track things get, they can (and will) get better.
"Heavy Sustain" smothers the "crib" with a carpet-roll of untamed warmth, baking one's subconscious with spacey peace and joy, its beckoning in some ways elusive, but still luring the listener with friendly persuasion. "Sustain", like the prior track, claims that a greater view exists around the starry bend, but to earn it, one must first face life's clashing currents.
Those currents become amplified in "When the Sun" plays: an entry that implies a sizzling force; however, its long-term ebbing never once disintegrates, but instead embellishes and fortifies, as in the Nietzsche quote, "What does not kill me, makes me stronger."
"CMBR" is the album's mega goodbye, so sprawling as to erase melancholia, though to abandon all woe would be misguided. In this regard, NXPTNE's sendoff is more a matter of status-quo acceptance and practical aspiration than resignation, which in truth symbolizes all aspects of Quantumnaut: a New Age, audible injection that may not purge one's personal demons, but at least assures one that all is cool, despite them.
Experience NXPTENE's musical inebriety:
https://musicaorizzontale.bandcamp.com/album/mo7-quantumnaut
and
https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1731735953/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/artwork=small/transparent=true/
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