Thursday, June 27, 2013

Thursday Bloom – Halcyon

June 1, 2013 • self-released

Apparently there's this thing called the 12 EPs challenge where an artist will put out one EP per month for a year straight. It's a neat concept, and even though I barely know anything about it, some good is definitely coming from it.

Thursday Bloom's fifth entry, Halcyon, is ambient music mostly composed of string instruments and piano, like chamber music played very slowly. Though it's very simple, the atmosphere, textures, and aesthetics of each piece are all very well-realized. It feels like the sort of thing that might work well as a dramatic, somber film score, which is pretty neat.

On the other hand, its very short length does leave a bit to be desired (often the case with ambient and drone). But despite its short and perhaps slow pace, Halcyon is definitely an enjoyable little nugget of music; Thursday Bloom does seem like an artist worth looking into more.

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