EXURSIONS - C418 -
This is such an amazing album for a lot of reasons, it’s outerworldly soundscapes or it’s blood pumping synthesis, it has something for the old school Minecraft fans and the recent fans of c418
First off the title track, a lush soundscape of twinkeling harmonies and something that calls back to volume alpha.
Cold summer picks up the pace, featuring a sinewave arpeggio that drones throughout and a thumpy bass drum really reminding you that the world of this album isn’t without dance music, this only foreshadows of what to come.
Txl reminds me of a sci fi Buddha giving life to many, it’s retro synths create a minimalistic but soothing atmosphere.
Tingle is the first heavy song on the album with a strong sub bass throughout and a pulsating rhythm interspersed with electric guitar and crackles of the outside to round this off as a first look into this albums better songs.
Beton was the first song created for this album, and it is amazing, opening with a calming set of reverb filled synth lines which then abruptly change into dancefloor shaking sawtooth synths that are sure to get your head moving, this cuts back into a slower section before building back up with vocal chops and a true c418 synth line, this song is really good.
Ams is a well deserved break after the electro jungle of beton it sports a solo piano playing something out of volume alpha, it’s soul transporting you away into a dream or wherever you feel like, it’s a track for the soul as it prepares you for c418s opera
Thunderbird is the Magnum opus of this record, a slow start soon builds intensity untill the kicks of beton Greet you to a genius baseline and chord stabs which are sure to send you into electro heaven, the track continued to build before cutting off with a reverb filled exit as Ams piano fades in but you barely get time to soak it in before the riser begins and you are thrust down the rabbit hole and into the land of hard baselines and pure banger before slowly breaking away, it’s 13 minute run time served it’s purpose.
Aviva is just ama with more bass, not much to say other than poggers.
Figure 8 starts slowly, strings guiding you to the eventual best drop and oh boy does this drop this fucking DROPS and before you know it you are in the land where no treble exists, just bass, and that is perfect. After synth is added back in the sound is full again before a cold summer like sound takes over the sound starts to build before drop 2 electric boogaloo, and it’s pretty good.
Fake triplets is a time only in triplets, c418 saw a crotchet and told it to fuck off. The bass drop is like figure 8 but more tron esc, with undeniably catchy synth riffs and a bit of handspan just so you remember who you are listening to. It does this a couple more times but to be holes I get lost.
Nest is like taking a microphone and holding it up to Daniel rosenfeilds Brian, chaotic electronic and catchy
Home is a desolate soundscape of concrete mscheinery which dominate the musical landscape
Atx got its name from the airport, and it’s music did too, with rhythm and noise coming from everywhere before slowly slowing down as the airport in your mind closes.
Leak starts slow, but with a small swelling synth building up untill BOOM the bass kicks in and so does your heart, the blood flowing like the lead of the song, never letting go of the hold of the song this song never lets up, and with its voltage inspired leads I wouldn’t even want it too. It finally slows to open the gate to my favourite song on the record
The president is dead opens with distorted vocals before a synth line begins caked in space, it is a street through the soundscape before the riser leads you in to the first drop of delay and goodness before the three cymbal hit and bam the stereo feild opens up into a space filled with stars and planets before the bass line returns like a warning tone on a ship or some sort of dubstep ringtone. Before the three cymbal hit crashes you doen to earth as you settle back from your musical voyage, but only halfway through ofcourse, the three cymbals open you up to a deep and strange like expanse of sound where not even god can save you, before building up into something incredible, and then dying down into a thumpy bass line
Hope is a quiet subdue ending, that sends you drifting the ocean of data and a stary sky of led bulbs, a fitting end to an amazing album
9.5/10
Fav - The president is dead
Best song - Thunderbird
C418 has created a album for the ages and such a beautiful soundscape. Bravo.
