The Flashbulb - Flacks / aBliss · riki's house

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walking in the mountains, you see flags waving in the distance…
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- you take in the majesty of the rocky landscape around you.
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- the difficulty of the hike makes your heart pound.
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- it’s a very windy day! the roaring wind makes it hard to keep your feet on the ground.
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eventually, you find yourself on a meadow. the wind dies down. you hear cicadas in the scorching sun.
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- as a light breeze passes by, you spot a fox spirit playing the flute somewhere in the distance. one blink later, and she’s gone.
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you walk up to the spot where you saw the fox spirit, and decide to set up camp there.
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soon enough, the sun fades, and you can see the stars. you start looking for constellations.
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- there’s the Dog, the Fox, the Cat,
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- but your mind is slowly drifting. your consciousness fading away, as you begin to sleep, and dream…
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Flacks, and to be honest, the entirety of aBliss, is probably my most beautiful discovery this month.
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- apart from the one little acid oddity of Monolite, which almost doesn’t fit the rest of the album. I like to imagine it as the dream you have in the middle of that meadow.
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  - visions you can’t comprehend, a feverish chase, creatures you’ve never seen. an unsettling concoction of colorful weird.
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  - I guess the Sandman didn’t bless you that night.
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- that one little moment of serenity, at 2:18, where the fox spirit plays the flute, is one of the most beautiful synaesthetic visions I’ve had while listening to music.
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  - it reminds me of this little animation I saw on YouTube a while back. beautiful stuff.
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- buy the album here
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thank you, Benn.
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