Private Suite Magazine Issue 10

Page 28

Review gbanas92

Prog With A Vapor Sheen:

Digging into w i n t e r q u i l t 愛が止ま’s

HYMN

Upon booting the album up, a wall of sound rises up to smack you in the face. Deep, fuzzy bass and a hypnotic drum beat come up to greet you, sounding like a thrash metal band playing through a funnel. And this is when things start to get weird. As the opening track “Falling” proceeds, creepy, distorted vocals start making themselves known, and the album begins to transition from in-your-face to under-your-skin. Before things start to get too creepy though, Winterquilt pulls things back a bit; the second track “Him” eases off, letting a bit of sunshine in. This track also has the most traditional vaporwave sound by far, relying less on rock elements — at first, anyway. Hot off the presses at Geometric Lullaby, following their long line of

feeling established in the first

stellar releases, comes a new release

track returns, creating a bizarre

from glimmer artist w i n t e r q u i l

juxtaposition with what, up until

t 愛が止ま. Since entering the scene

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Before long, however, the unnerving

this point, sounds like a Playstation

in 2018, their sound has definitely

1 soundtrack. This sound bleeds

shifted to darker places, and nowhere

into the third track, as well, which

is this fact better displayed than with

feels much like a cross between the

their newest release, H Y M N.

opening pair of songs. Through these


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