A series of variations on a playful theme, the tracks of this EP create an ominous but playful look into the ambiguity of darkness, filled with both hope and fear. They achieve this with repetition of a trudging theme with lighter counter-themes that bring out a sense of adventure in the obscurity.
We should probably call this genre nightwave, since it incorporates the sombre intensity of epic soundtracks of the past, the transportation to an ancient time of dungeon synth, and the lush 1980s saturation of vaporwave with its sense of rolling discovery.
Humans fear doubt; our weapon against doubt — skepticism of our knowledge, choices, position, and selves — is certainty. Nightwave starts with a foreboding certainty like doom metal, but more like black metal expands into the possibilities of the nocturnal realm, all in pure synth.
Paradoxically, this has the same lightness as vaporwave: there is less of a tangible groove and more a sense of momentum pouring through time, in which texture leads to melodic hints that guide each piece, creating a sense of calm in the midst of uncertainty.
Tags: dungeon synth, garden gnome, nightwave, soundtrack, vaporwave
The more wide-eyed readers should be aware that GG is one of Brett’s sock puppets. Pretty sure he just steals the music from a real dungeon synth artist, kinda like the Velvet Cacoon guy.
When does your next Chrome Dome album drop?
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This sometimes sounds like a western counterpart to the eastern Eikona LP some years ago.
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Does anyone find this joke project even remotely funny? How many records is this retard going to make for the five people on here to listen to once?
Hey this is the only music that my limbless hermaphroditic child can stand. And personally I like to cum all over myself and forcehug my cat while listening to garden gnome. Just feels right
I woke up this morning and got myself a bowl of cereal. I went outside and got the newspaper. The wind slammed the door so I took the spare key from underneath the potted plant and went back inside. Then I listened to music that thrived from 1983-1993 and slowly began to die. My head was a mass of clotted blood. I became sleepy and cold. And still, thirty years later, I listen to a dead genre, as if someone chopped its brains with an axe and left behind an animated corpse. I don’t know why I thought of that just now.
Our whole civilization has been stuck in the 90’s since the Iron Curtain was lifted. All the money went to Diversity instead of military industrial complex make-work jobs.
Such a dumb take.
Brett and his ilk have spent years developing the nuances of their positions. You offer a surface level reaction. When you should probably be doing push-ups or talking to girls.
This is very good. Garden Gnome kicks ass!
Ggggaaaayyyyyyyyy…..