That glorious outburst of multicolored sound at 2:56. One of the most triumphant, life-affirming, overwhelming sounds that can ever be sounded. It sounds like what many Christian rock, ie worship bands spend years trying to achieve just once: an atmosphere that suddenly suspends time and taps into the empyreal and celestial. Enveloping layers of slightly blurred guitar notes, a hovering synthesizer that, though it never changes its pitch, always seems to rise higher in relation to the surrounding textures, and drumming that decelerates to a wide-open cadence, all together create the impression of sound stretching forever into infinite space. The concrete slowly blurs into the abstract and immaterial. For the boundary between one side and the other is thinning, until it disappears completely.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:33:25 +0000