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REVIEW: The Synthetic Dream Foundation - A Rain Of Things Which Happened In Flashes
Self-financed, 2003
SDF employs soft, gritty rhythmic sounds to create a musical canvas for their melodies. These aural sensations are reminiscent of softly-grinding char, a manual conception of fire, sand-filled maracas. On top of all this are resonant bells, piano keys, more electro-musical morse code, and other sensory pleasures. Occasional background “wahs” create mood, though often times jumping radically from one high to low, a possible attempt to include all buttons. The music along with the album cover, the vision of a blue-haired elf in a double-vision blur, affixes a tripnotic feel. The variety of sound samples is great, with one variation introduced soon after another. They mesh together, creating an overload of electronic sloshiness. The extensive musical variation appears ‘eager to please’, and this amateurishness is also evident in the album title. “A Rain of Things which Happened in Flashes” shows the writer’s desire to achieve poetic artistry, when the choice and assembly of words if confusing and the concept hard to grasp. The fruit is too sweet, my ears plead for contrast. This album is in need of fixed, simplistic soundscapes to balance out the music, a more solid and absolute physical “beat” (harshness preferred), and less “experimentation”. Let us savor those melodies, pull the music together.
| Tracklist |
| 1. My Cavern Within Exile |
| 2. Cold Stares |
| 3. Stargazer |
| 4. Failing Heart |
| 5. How Desire Learned Thievery |
| 6. Uncaging Her Demons |
| 7. Moonbeams Through The Wreckage |
| 8. Mists Of Solace |
| 9. The Puppeteer's Harpy |
| 10. Black Halo |
| 11. For Childhood Memories |
: 53.20
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