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Some albums demand you SEE them. Others ask you to FEEL them. APHANTAZIA does something you haven’t heard of before: this album insists you listen without the crutch of imagery, without trying to imagine the colors you yourself insist on seeing when listening to music. There’s a particular kind of ambition that doesn’t announce itself loudly, there’s no beginning for virality, which we see a lot of nowadays.
We Are At The Age of Virality
Everything is now being made to go viral, that’s the only way to make it, but no, Yellow Majesty digs deep into the core of music, finding its true sound. APHANTAZIA operates in that rarified space. Yellow Majesty’s latest project is named after the inability to visualize mental objects, and the irony is quite the fact because this record paints with sound so precisely that it dares you to try and stop imagining what you are listening, but you can’t.
From the opening moments, APHANTAZIA announces itself as deliberate, not flashy. The album knows when to pull back, when to let a phrase linger, when to leave a gap that forces the listener to lean forward. There’s no clout-chasing, there’s not desperate attempt to become relevant or to become a nagging tune that forces you to remember. There is no force being made, it’s your mind gettind addicted to the sound. Vocals hover somewhere between confession and invocation with a dash of seduction, illustrating true vision without desperation.
You Be The Judge
Just listen to songs like “Stalker” and “Thanks For Nothing”, there really is not return from there. Well, let’s take it a step further; there is a return to originality and familiarity. Where do you go when you travel back to a place that becomes the future? These are the questions you find yourself asking yourself when listening to “Stalker”. The complete rhythm is soothing, tough, groovy, and mind-encapsulating.
Lyrically, where you’re taken a realm of focused precision to images without being built or shown. Can you see in color, living color, or live in simple vibrations that sounds provide. That’s where we feel is the key to APHANTAZIA.
This album was not made for everyone, and that’s exactly why it works. There are too many artists who are trying to appease to the masses when the masses don’t want you, the niche does. Take a listen to “The Judge”, it’s exactly what you’re contemplating right now. The lyrics do not position itself as a trend-chaser, a clout-performer, but someone who has a point of view and the discipline to defend itself.
Start The Conversation
Yellow Majesty isn’t just making music, it’s going beyond the soundwaves. Yellow Majesty is providing you with a conversation starter to something more, can you visualize it?
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