It's a peculiar thing to listen to hip-hop, even the most abstract one, and have so little idea about the lyrics. On the other hand you can always treat the voice as another instrument and enjoy the whole composition, just like it is with ambient or post-rock. XMDMX makes it certainly possible. The very first piano sounds bought me and there is also the artist's voice which has so little in common with hip-hp. He sounds like suffering bard reciting poetry with his deep, resonating way of speaking. If it's not goth-hop I don't know what could be.
The tracks' titles say something about the topics they handle. There's "Dust", "Confession" and "Shadows", titles that could appear on a dark ambient album. There's also "Ole Lukkoye" - a tribute song for the Russian band that combined progressive rock with shamanic Tuva influences under Gorbachev. Perhaps it's time to learn some Russian to understand the album better.
XMDMX is a universal artist, he publishes also a series of short clips on his Instagram under a shared name "Project: Melancholia". You can hardly not like him.
"Айзельгерц" is a poetry for 1 USD.
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