I'm a total sucker for this album structure, two pairs of counterpoint songs, a pivot song, and two more pairs of counterpoint songs -- this is the kind of shit I'm always working into mixes. And I think it matters - song structure as poetry's a burgeoning theoryof mine.
Related point courtesy of Jo: song lengths as sentence lengths, good albums as good paragraphs.
And in the actual tunes --- a post-dubstep mix of big beats, swoops and whomps and swoops and wanders, inventive, sweeping, unconventional, unpinnable, knob turns and overlays and melodic doodles, shades of white whale Feed Me, it's got chopped funk and a lot of soul, packed to the brim with little inventions (an honest to god solo piano track in the endgame), untethered to any particular style, tough to sum up, impossible to predict, and totally something I'm gonna revisit. That structure's not a gimmick, it feels put in place to help you navigate, all the subtle references and kaleidoscopic styles and lurking architecture of Jonathan Blow's The Witness, as sound 4/5
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