An album release from Nature Nvoke delivers a vast array of tonalities and soundscapes that bends genres at free will and with all of that comes a mass amount of character in the form of textures, colors, and sounds.
The Doors of Perception album comes through with a vast electronic and postpunk undertone and all of it has this brilliant approach to the production so that you get a lot of surprises around the corners and by the time you get maybe three or four songs into the record you begin to expect the unexpected.
I love a good album that gives you surprises like this one does. The approach to how the record is produced is outstanding because it incorporates these great thinned-out, sort of twangy and distanced guitars with an array of synth and key textures and all of it comes through with a vast atmospheric vibe so that you're able to get wrapped up in everything.
Not only is it super easy to get engulfed by this record, but in the end, you end up getting washed away with it as well. But I think that's part of the point.
This is one of those albums where you don't just listen to one or two songs. Yes, there are a few tracks that, to me, feel like they would stand on their own two legs very well as singles; however, if you listen to one or two songs from this record you're not getting anywhere near the full spectrum of what the actual album has to offer as a whole.
This is more of an experience than just a record and it can really pull you away from your surroundings and put you in an array of different worlds so it serves as an amazing escape to be honest.
I haven't had such a vast and expansive experience with a record in quite some time and believe me, there's plenty of edginess that goes with that color, there's plenty of personality and character and a lot of these songs, and there is a lot of attention and detail to how the songs were arranged and built however, it never loses those characters or those personalities
This is an experimental electronic record that incorporates a ton of postpunk and that's probably my favorite aspect about it because the whole thing can capture a specific aesthetic of these late '80s and early '90s post-punk approaches and that aesthetic is completely nailed.
So you can tell that there is influence from all sides of the spectrum and from all these different places and if you listen to the whole record, you can hear these peeking through here and there all over the place.
There is something about the record that feels connective almost like it's a concept album of sorts and you can tell that these are very personal to the point where it almost feels like certain songs serve almost like chapters in the artist's life in a way.
When you listen to this record you can tell this has a deeper meaning and it had a lot to do with inner stuff that the artist needed to get out and done with a sort of graceful approach and again, genre-bending style that lets tons of these other subgenres bleed in.
There's techno, synthwave, industrial, some of the songs feel massively cinematic, and there's just tons of this stuff all over the record.
It feels like this took forever to make but how would I know. I have no idea exactly what it takes to make a record like this one but I can tell you this, it has a sense of freedom and deepening to it that feels somehow welcoming in the strangest ways.
This was driving but vast, it had pop embedded in its veins yet it was somewhat dark and edgy.
There are layers that can be peeled back there are layers that can be peeled back throughout this album and it's a lot of fun to do exactly that.
So, I would suggest grabbing some headphones because it's one of the best ways to listen to this record. This way you can pick up on all the things that are happening in the songs. There are notes and elements that float through the ethers of some of these tracks and you want to pick up on everything.
Anyway, grab those headphones and listen to the record from beginning to end because it is a great experience.
Remember where you heard it first.