“Hiber”,
which I feel is short for hibernation, begins with an ambient pop sound that
somehow channels Rusted Root, but don’t ask me how exactly because after this
opening all thoughts of that band quickly go away. There
is this quality of bop bop bop bop and then bum bum in the sounds that comes
out on repeat before eventually transcending into wave patterns.
There
are harmonies and ambient tones and the overall feel of Side A is just
spiritual somehow. The pace settles
down and really seems to find its groove as it becomes peaceful more than
anything else. While there is a definite
hint of FNL, this side mostly just sounds relaxing to me, like what I imagine
it would be like to spend the day at a spa.
Side B
comes in with a synth tone hum that I like to think of as apocalypse
drone. Go ahead, someone use an old
“Apocalypse Now” poster and change it to say “Apocalypse Drone”. The hints of FNL come back, but often times
I find myself wanting to sing, in my best Blue October voice,
“Congratulations. Is this seat
taken?”
By the
end of “Hiber”, there are some Atari era “Return of the Jedi” type drone synth,
but it might just even be lightsabers for all I know. In any event, it does bring back the in and
out waves that were present back on Side A and the whole thing just seems to
come full circle, though I highly doubt that I could sleep through it.
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