Arliston Release A Full Album
A brand new album from Arliston just dropped, and the record brandishes a fast and immersive soundscape that lends a hand to a thick and heavy-handed cinematic backbone, all with an honest and emotional push that creates this personality you end up really getting attached to.
The Disappointment Machine LP is a beautiful piece of work that delves deep into a lot of that emotion and inner thought as it comes spilling out and while this happens you end up painting pictures in your head and even finding certain tracks relatable.
As the record unfolds you begin to realize that this must have been quite cathartic for the songwriters behind the record and a lot of these songs serve as chapters in someone's life.
Lyrics can be detailed and descriptive while the music has a way of swimming around in the air surrounding you.
This is the kind of album you listen to from beginning to end so that you can soak it in the way it was meant to be.
These songs feel connected like this is a concept album of sorts and if you only listen to one or two tracks, you may get an idea of what to expect but you will not get the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.
This is a beautiful mixture of natural and digital instrumentation that features everything from cellos and pianos to synths and pads.
It's all woven together with such a seamless approach that you end up getting engulfed by the record itself and the sounds that it gives off.
The album portrays such a wondrous mixture and mending of textures so you find yourself floating about in the atmosphere it has created.
The record is incredibly honest and obviously came from genuine places and life experience so because of this, you do end up connecting with certain tracks a lot.
The vocal delivery is soulful and has this almost sullen undertone at times but that's just because these tracks are expressive and you can literally hear how singer Jack Ratcliffe is in a particular place when he's singing these songs.
Along with that emotional push vocally, you have such lush instrumentals that present expansive underbellies to these songs so that you become a part of that emotion, and the band producer George Hasbury manages to match the kind of energy given vocally.
You can tell that this is a record with layers and if you listen to it all the way through, it serves as an amazing escape that pulls you away from whatever you're doing and whatever you are and puts you in someone else's world for a bit.
Listening to the album is the same as watching a good film or even reading a good book. Again, these are almost like chapters and as you listen, you can almost feed from the emotional impact it delivers.
Arliston is a London-based duo and long-time friends it would seem who have been making music for quite some time and with the release of Disappointment Machine, it sure feels like tjos is some of the best stuff they have released yet.
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