aRCANE a SYLUM Brings Us a Massive and Experimental Album

A massive album release from aRCANE aSYLUM delivers a soiree of blended approaches, textures, and soundscapes that range from industrial to alternative pop, cinematic vastness, haunts, and plenty more, all rolled into one gigantic record that takes you for a musical journey of sorts. If you listen to the record all the way through from beginning to end in one shot, it is quite an intense experience.

Nowhere Now has such a wild range of synths, percussion, guitars, vocals, and beats. This record has no bounds and no walls built around it, so when you listen to it, you have to keep an open mind because it almost feels like a cinematic soundtrack to a horror film.

There are waves of intensities and brilliant use of keys throughout this entire thing, and you can tell that not only was there a lot of attention to detail paid to the creation of this record as it was being done but it also holds this sort of theme that stays true throughout the course of the album.

You have elements of post-punk, new wave, darkwave, and more showing face, along with plenty of other influences strewn throughout the record's playthrough. There is an experimental electronic approach that has a strange way of creeping up on you, wrapping its claws around you,  pulling you into its atmosphere, and keeping you there.

I love these kinds of tracks the most because they're so outside the box, but work so well at the same time.

Tracks like "Renegade Soundwave" showcase such examples and really have a way of showing you the artist's love for the craft. Creating these kinds of songs takes a certain patience but also a certain level of creativity and imagination.

These songs are almost like chapters of a book or scenes of a film.  they feel strangely interconnective and have a confluence to them that lets the whole record come through like a concept album.

Songs like "No Frontiers" have Fierce and sharp, edgy sounds with almost breakbeat feels and come with moods attached to them.

It is indeed a very moody record, and that's one of the things I adore about the entire release. These songs have their own moods and bring with them a character in a certain sense.

Some tracks have vocals and some don't. A lot of the record is fully instrumental, but either way, you're getting these sorts of worlds that you are pulled into, and once you're there, you don't really want to leave.

Songs like "The After Hours" have an awesome synth line and a little bit of a vast underbelly, but come through with a colorful sort of catchiness at the same time.

So, you do have songs that are pop-coated in a sense, and I think that those influences shine through in different areas of the record.

There is plenty of pop undertone throughout the album, but it also has a sort of momentum to it, and never lets that haunt or edginess go astray.

That little level of edge is always there. There's always a sort of darkness to the record, which is part of the theme of it.

I strongly suggest listening to this album all the way through. This way, you can soak in everything for what it's worth. There are plenty of surprises around the corners and brilliant production approaches that leave you wondering how certain sounds were even created.

This is an album created and written with fewer boundaries than what you may be used to.

If you look at it like the soundtrack or score to a film, then it works even better in terms of the connectivity and the confluence of everything.

I love the elements of an expansive and experimental approach that creates brilliant soundscapes that float through the album's ether, and if you listen to this with headphones on, you'll really be able to hear all of those elements properly.

Again, this was a great escape and certainly has the ability to pull you away from whatever you're doing and wherever you are and put you into this completely different world for a chunk of time, which in my opinion, is a gift.

This was an awesome and envelope-pushing release that may not be for every single person out there, but for people who love soundtracks, score music, anything cinematic, experimental, digital, synth-driven, and even classical music, will probably love this. The reason I say classical music is that it's instrumental music that has emotion behind it.

Classical music also delivers plenty of mood, and this record pulls that off without a hitch as well, so if you love music that uses tone and progression, melody, and texture to create moods, then this record is going to be something you won't soon forget.

Definitely take a deep dive into this record and soak it all in as best you can.

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