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After listening
to Charlie Nieland several times on his solo effort “Under Dark”, I questioned
whether or not there was anything that he could not do. After listening to “Under Dark” several more
times, I realized that there is in fact nothing he cannot do.
From
ambient to not, “Under Dark” will take you through a musical journey that will
leave you feeling like a long road trip, yet when it is all said and done you’ll
be left wanting more. There are drum
machine beats that carry this toward hip hop and something of that like which I
cannot place because I don’t remember all the variations on seapunk (I know it
has a name though, I just like to refer to it as “not quite seapunk”)
There
are hooks and there are samples, and really there is a little bit of everything
on “Under Dark”. Could it be an
abstract, rare gem that is tucked away and not found or discovered by anyone
for a very long time, lost in its brilliance?
It could. Is there a chance of
it being a pop sensation, blowing up television screens in Japan and then
eventually the U.S.? Also something I’ve
considered.
Songs
like “Hallucination Beach” are a fine example as to why this is such a fine
piece of music. I like to compare music to
different forms of media, such as to say, “If this album was a movie, it’d be…”,
but in this instance I would rather see the movie based upon this album.
No, I
don’t believe that this album fits the qualities of being inspired by a movie
or television show, but rather it should do the inspiring. Some great director should listen to this
one day and create an accompanying visual piece to go with it.
Though
if pressed, I would compare this to a book (and book only, not the movie) for “Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas”. It’s not
the soundtrack to the book as you could say that book is to literature on the
whole as this album is to music on the whole.
I don’t think makes sense, so I probably should’ve just stopped after
the previous paragraph.
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