A Deepening Record from Arcane Asylum Has Arrived

The unique and expansive but addictive electronic compositions of Arcane Asylum return once more with a brilliant LP that spans a wider variety and different directions than you might expect.

The album blends and mends gritty electronic undertones that border on Industrial and bear a heavy-handed cinematic output, with robust elements of rock, post-punk, and even a bit of an experimental dark wave feel.

We are no strangers to the sounds of Arcane Asylum, and are always pretty blown away by the stuff that they release. This is no exception to that rule whatsoever.

This record is called The Looking Glass, and it jumps in with a sort of glitchy and dirty feeling electronic single that has a brilliantly vast underbelly but utilizes some inventive synths and keys to add color and layers.

Throughout the unfolding of this album, you get the feel for how the artist builds songs.

These are tracks that deliver moods, soundscapes, emotions, and outstanding sets of textures that seem to come together, bringing out a thick atmosphere.

Once you find yourself in this atmosphere, you just want to stay there.

This is because the project is driven by a producer and composer who takes time to sculpt and shape sounds.

Not just songs or pieces of music. Not just arrangements or compositions, he shapes actual sound so that what you’re hearing is a synthesizer coated with a decimator or a pad affected with massive amounts of reverb or delay.

All the sounds that you hear are shaped, and because of that, there are a lot of intricacies to the record that let it feel alive and breathing.

Now, having said that, there is also plenty of attention paid to the arrangements as well. This is also why songs feel like they have a natural flow.

Throughout this record, you begin to expect the unexpected, even though you know it’s going to be something that you can get swallowed up by.

This is the kind of album that delivers a massively electronic and cinematically driving approach, so it is okay to get swallowed up by sounds like this. That is part of what it’s meant for. 

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