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♫ Drippin’ - Worlds Apart

♫ Drippin - Worlds Apart

No longer could we keep the monsters at bay - those terrible, terrific titans that kept our livelihood on hold. As we would struggle to come to terms with our reality, we no longer felt the need to deny. Taking up arms, we would peruse the walls until we felt secure in our fortress. Our eyes would remain wide open while others would sleep, shrouded in fear. Unable to imagine a world unlike the one we’ve come to known, we would fight - guarding those that we loved and adored from becoming the behemoth’s nourishment. Aborting the banquet of gore - the sustenance of these unsightly creatures we were taught to fear and annihilate - our victory was always short lived. Repetition of survival - everlasting endurance.

This next-level work from Norway’s Drippin’ has me feeling like a type of galaxy saving 2D heroine. With pounding basslines, drums that sputter in fits and starts, and creeping, lurking distorted vocals, “Worlds Apart,” makes you feel as if you are on an otherworldly mission. As the melodies ascend and the vocal work, nebulous and sulking, slightly give way to inching, impish samples, you become wrapped up in repetition -  the warbling, impeding sense of change. Until it all breaks - exploding - illumination.

♪ File under: electronic, future trance, next level