The narrator talks about feeling something coming from all around. Their voice has a lost quality as it moves into the song.ĭislocation, loss, and a sense of confusion fill the words of this song. Now we fade into those broken, brief sounds and clouds of sharp-edged synth underneath and the beat breaks apart. Their vocals drift along through space and the beat feels relentless as the hard-edged synths growl into cavernous space. Sharp-edged, medium-low synth sounds drift in waves as they’re joined by the throbbing pulse of the beat. Echoing, bouncing and metallic sounds keep flowing out into the cosmic void along with their distorted vocals. “UPGRADE” comes into being with a great void of open space around Daniel Quasar’s robotically distorted voice and a hollow, metallic sound that expands into that vast sonic space. The feelings of isolation, cold, and distance are all powerfully present and deepen the strength of the lyrical content further. They have a natural ache in their singing that only emphasizes the emotional content of the music more but they have also effectively used a vocal filter that creates a robotic tone. I also find myself drawn in by the way Daniel Quasar uses their voice. I find myself transported by the overall sonic palette of the music and carried on a space journey. Those sensations of separation and division match the lyrical content nicely. There are cold, starry twinkling sounds, glitches, and static along with moments of deep bass and sounds all backed by wide open sonic space. I also enjoy their way of crafting strong images through words.Īnother strong aspect of the album is the use of synths to evoke feelings of emptiness, vast cosmic voids, and great distance.
Their insight into thought and feeling allows the songs to cut incisively into the listener’s mind and plant the ideas there. They are able to craft words that clearly and sharply delineate emotion and humanity. The first element that drew me to WAVES is the caliber of Daniel Quasar’s songwriting. The feeling of deep loneliness is occasionally pierced by light and moments that are more uplifting. Their emotional exploration also includes a sonic palette that further emphasizes the themes that appear in the song lyrics with sensations of emptiness, desolation, and drift emanating from the synths that they use. Daniel Quasar’s WAVES is an album exploring issues of being and becoming, along with loss and pain.
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