Just one last visit.
I have lived in 4 different houses in my life, the first when I was still an infant till probably 4 - 5 years old when my family moved to a new house, then I moved again when I was 12 years old, and moved once again recently this 2019. I had memories of my happy and despairing moments on those old houses, and I didn't cared much about reminiscing some of my memories that truly stuck with me...
Until Shye decided to create this album, with all the sounds having to do something with the houses that she lived in, either now abandoned and broken apart, and the memories that she brought along with her.
From the echoey music box that plays in most of Cubby House, from the modified sounds that comes in the backyard that shows up in Garden, Birds, Wood Grain, The bell from her dogs collar on Cherish, the rather ominous and subtle breakdown on Under the Floorboards, and the culmination of Bring the House Down with the elements of the past, and those last 3 minutes with pronounced melodies with the sounds of passing cars in the background.
And if you pair it up with what the booklet has to provide, it starts to click with me. Visiting your past house and found out that it hasn't been groomed for a long time now, with everything kept as is, to reminiscing your childhood memories in your backyard and started to miss the trees that we're now cut down as time passed by, to remembering the dogs that your family once has and you're now trying to cherish the dogs that you currently have before they soon go to sleep, to remember those grittier memories with the happier ones, and lastly, remembering all of those memories once again, just looking at that house that kept you safe and sound for so long, before you have and need to leave that house and say goodbye.
And it does hit with me really well, due to the atmosphere being quite hallow (in a good way) to create that sense of nostalgic farewell, to the context and content of going back to your past and seeing that things have changed (for better or for worse) or that you'll need to leave the house you're in, even if you don't really want to leave.
Yeah, this is a great ambient album by Shye, kudos to you on making such a pleasant, yet an aching sound of the past.
I'll probably start making good memories in this new house, with myself or with the others, because time will continue its pace, and will lead to the point where my family, or I will have to leave this place.
But before all that happens, I will make sure that I will go back one last time.
Just one last visit.