ALEPH presents life, death, and rebirth of a star with his expansive debut album, 'Ego Death'.
When people think of space in music, they usually think of the echoing, cosmic sounds that may come up in certain stripes of electronic music, but ALEPH’s interpretation of space goes in a cycle with his debut album, EGO DEATH.
Like certain phenomena that occur in space, the textures and samples in this album contain expansive and constrained sets of fizzling noise, deep bass vacuums, and vintage samples on one side and pretty keys and hypnotic soundscapes on the other as contrast, which makes sense as an auditory presentation of a star’s explosion and rebirth into something new. It might start a bit clunky as the melodies churn and clash in repetitive sequences, gets better as the explosion is tided by swirls of shimmering textures that play along with the vacuums of noise and bass.
To reinstate, it sounds like an auditory equivalent of the cycle of a star, its growth, its explosion, and the rebirth that comes along with it. It blasts off from the start and ends up being a spectacle at the end.
Favorite Tracks: R.E.M, BREATHE, NOISE FLOOR, ▌▌▌▌▌▌▌█▓▓▓▒▒▒░░░░░░░░░ , EGO DEATH, ENDLESS DREAM, DECOMPOSITION, RECOVERY, RETROSPECT Least Favorite Track: POLYMER