posted: 2025-01-21 Birth of a New Day 2814

Its almost impossible not to visualize the setting of that rainy city street in the dead of night lit only by the flourescent neon signs that smother the evocative and iconic cover art to 2814’s Birth of a New Day. Right down to visualising the reflections of said signs in the puddles forming across the asphalt. It’s that meticulously crafted atmosphere that really gives this album it’s charm and serves the overall direction of the super dreamlike and washed out sound that so often finds moments of extreme beauty between pauses of droning ambience and evocative sampling. It’s maintained a deserved status as a highly regarded release in the whole vaporwave/dreampunk movement that’s mostly come and gone by this point. It’s high points effortlessly grab your attention and it’s more drawn out and droning moments slip pleasantly into the background.

MxAnThrope, RYM