“The Most Dear and The Future” is a bite-sized lofi electronic album that feels like a collage. When I decided to review this album I had already heard a few songs from it and knew to expect the pasted together sound. I decided to take out a paper and pen and write down every one of these found sounds that I could pick out of the musical blend they were inside of. Here is a shortened version of the list: A printer, a glass clinking against another glass, the croak of a battery-powered children’s toy, wind chimes, bird calls, a bell, crunching leaves and rain on a tin roof.
This myriad of sounds is laid one on top of the other to act as instruments and are accompanied by simple synths and rattling bass. Sometimes the singing on this album does not sound like singing at all, instead sounding like whispering and mumbles or like snatches of an overheard phone call. When there was singing it was a gentle lullaby over the woven tapestry of familiar sounds creating a strangely comforting atmosphere.
I really enjoyed this album. It was much shorter than many modern albums but in a way that makes a lot of sense. It felt more like a nostalgia-inducing sonic experiment than it did like an album with individualistic songs that are eager to be enjoyed outside of their original context. My enjoyment in this instance definitely slants more towards hoping to hear more from this artist in the future rather than wishing for this particular album to be longer.
