Arun Antonyraj’s follow up to the debut Are You Saying I’m Still Alive? may only consist of three guitar compositions, but if you listen close enough, the pieces expand in front of your eyes. With enough delay pedal and looping capabilities, six electric strings become an aural landscape of highs, lows, and the complicated feelings that life brings you when you’re in the middle.
The guitar is ironically at its most plural on the singularly-titled “Transparency,” demonstrating the oceanic thematics at work on the new release. Riffs tilt back and forth with ease and stiltedness as if a lonely daydreaming ship captain is beginning to let his mind rattle and percolate. There’s something brewing in this simplicity and it all plays out throughout the next two songs.
“Transparent Seas” gets little and goes below deck, but sails wider and larger by the end of its not even 3-minute climb. “Transparencies” projects an army of tensions on the open sea in the most minuscule degree. Quickly enough, it may become obvious that the latest effort from Hamilton, albeit minimal, is ultimately cinematic in scope and feeling. A soundtrack to a short film by director A.M. Chaney, Transparent Seas also works completely on its own as a trio of agit-ambient ruminations perfect for soundtracking your own life.
- Transparency (3:36)
- Transparent Sea (2:53)
- Transparencies (3:24)
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