Chrichton77
Beautiful, simply beautiful. This gave me the same feeling as listening to Raise your skinny fists.. from G!YBE. I never thought I would hear something that powerful again. Thank you.
Favorite track: Heaven Come Crashing (feat. maria bc).
Heaven Come Crashing, the sophomore electronic full-length from Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar, finds the protean guitarist and producer pivoting from the ghostly netherworlds of her debut into vivid, fluorescent, cinematic maximalism.
On Our Hands Against the Dusk, Nayar used her guitar as the primary source for sound design, mutating the instrument beyond recognition through layers of digital processing. Soon after, the album’s companion EP, fragments, demonstrated the types of raw guitar-playing that would be transfigured into those grander compositions—miniature genre sketches that touched upon everything from post-rock to Midwestern emo.
Heaven Come Crashing retains Nayar’s mangled guitar stylings but expands the color palette by looking not so much to the fretboard, as to the dance floor and the silver screen. Influences enter into the frame ranging from ’90s trance, to early M83, to Yoko Kanno anime soundtracks. With its M1 piano stabs, supersaws, and glimpses of Amen breaks, the album charts a luminescent space between 5 a.m. warehouse raves and the urban freeways of its cover image—romantic, nocturnal, and reckless in its velocity and emotional abandon.
There's a longing here to welcome and disappear in transcendent ideals and desperate passions—but alongside that, a drive to destroy one's own grandiose visions too. Within this conflicted relationship to its own theatrics, the album wages a war between surrendering to desire and incinerating it. Heaven Come Crashing invites the listener to revel within fantasy, before helping light the match to burn it down—one final embrace in the dream world before it shatters to pieces.
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“Fantasy is scenario, but a scenario in bits and pieces—always very brief, just a glimmer of the narrative of desire. What’s glimpsed is very sharply contoured, very brightly lit, but all of a sudden it’s gone: a body I catch sight of in a car as it goes round a bend, before it plunges into the shadows“
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released August 26, 2022
Composed, produced, and mixed by Rachika Nayar
Mastered by Black Knoll Studio
Additional mixing by Carlos Hernandez
“Heaven Come Crashing”
Vocals by maria bc
Synth sampled from Rafael Anton Irisarri
"Our Wretched Fate"
Vocals by maria bc
Mastered by Chris Weiss
Album cover by Yulissa Benitez and Rachika Nayar; special thanks to my tranny daughters Issei and Chong for embracing on the highway median
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My god, what an absolutely incredible Suite. I'll admit, I've struggled to get into Pharoah Sanders due to diving headfirst into some of his most challenging catalogue and that never worked. This is the perfect place to restart. Floating Points is new for me and I can honestly say I've never heard synthesizer music this lush and organic before. the LSO is just perfect. This is one of those albums that any serious music fan needs in their life. The perfect swan song for the great Pharaoh! 5/5 ClassyMusicSnob
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Dearest Arooj, firstly thank you. My brother died this year n what can be said about such loss n sadness. I saw n heard you at The end of the Road in England. I spent many years in India n love all the music, poetry of your heritage. Thankyou Arooj❤️ ben1769
Catalan physicist, musician, and producer nara is neus delivers a gorgeous, immersive ambient EP that is stunning in its beauty. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 12, 2024
A hushed electronic outing from this Berlin-based duo with blinking analog synths is perfect for late-night drives on lonely highways. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 2, 2023