Album Review/ Alt Rock : I Forget Myself’s ‘A Countenance in Involution’
I Forget Myself is an alt rock artist and multi-instrumentalist who deals in novelty acts. His soundscapes are forged with innovative ideas and an exploratory style. It’s like watching a movie for the pure joy of cinematography, story line aside. The artist treats music as an indulgence, a sphere where his thoughts and feelings come to life. And it inspires a similar passion in the listener as well.
His latest release is ‘A Countenance in Involution’, the artist’s eighth studio album in which he plays around with the essence and expanse of rock as he knows it. Each song contains at least one foundational aspect that he changes and traces the evolutionary path that it takes. Add to that his phenomenal ideas and sophisticated intuition. The soundscapes are nothing like anything you’ve ever heard.
‘Silence’ opens the album. It introduces us to the dynamism of his stylistic exchange and progression. Smoky pop vocals on the top bleed into deep and clawing moments of alt rock. And progressively, you’ll see how the textures, rhythms, and spirit of both these spheres affect each other and fuse. In songs like ‘Exist’ and ‘Discard My Thought’, we see more of this contrast forming. Rather, it is forged with a stylistic intention.
Another concept that we see playing out is that of lightness and depth. Most tracks carry these two themes so differently but it is a recurring theme. In ‘Remained in View’ and ‘What It Is To Know’, the riffs and basslines run hard. They are jagged, raw and heavy as they form in the soundscape. However the vocals are involved in a more contemplative affair. It compels you to drive deeper into lyrical moments. In that way, it can be quite immersive.
‘The Precipice’ is a range, a slow flow from 0 to a fantastic 100. While it has a soft and mellow start, it grows more textured, gets more powered and bolder like a beast driving towards an apex, an explosive climax. There are a lot of experimental elements that will just blow your mind. Because you get to see the idea that is incepted at its nascent stage and watch it grow, be executed well into its finality. The whole thing is laid bare in front of you.
‘A Wish Eroded’ and ‘To Colour in Motion Too’ are colorful tracks. The rhythm is progressive arithmetically. But the chromatic work progresses geometrically, exploding into vivid grandeur that you cannot forget in a hurry.
The artist has a lot of cerebral notions, intellectual quotients that reflect in his lyrical flow or even in his technical understanding of music and the genre itself. It comes about in all the tracks. It presents ideas with confidence and an explored charisma. Listen Now!
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