piątek, 8 października 2021

Ben Haskins - Oh Believers, Run! (2021)


Ben Haskins is an artist from Canada, who creates instrumental music from the borders of post-rock and instrumental ambient. Oh Belivers, Run! makes a beautiful comment on today's world in which there's so many things to worry about.

The album contains music from the "sightings series of soundscape videos, peppered with some new material" and is said to be darker and heavier than Haskin's previous works, made so to reflect what is going around us in the world nowadays. This is music that is a tone lighter than post-rock and a ton heavier than instrumental ambient, something that gives the sense of urgency (the pace of Oh Believers!) and inexplicable nervousness while at the same time enchant the audience with the ambiance. In the artist's words, it also is meant to have the cinematic vibes that affect the listeners with the sound grandeur and I can definitely hear it in some places.

As mentioned already, the album has a pretty harsh messages regarding the condition of our world and it's audible in the bleak Absence of Colour, nervously pulsating Pyramind Scheme and Our Nature - it can't be a coincidence that the gloomiest track on the album is entitled like this. Also, let's not forget about the cover art that I found especially climactic and aesthetically pleasing at the same time.

Oh Believers, Run! costs 5 EUR (7 CAD).

Check: Absence of Colour
Country: Canada
Genre: ambient post-rock



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