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about this album
Astrophile is an album whose underlying story is about a human enamored with all things about space and the deeper layers of existence, who ultimately goes on an adventure in space to discover a new planet and explore the sidereal nether. In short, this album is dedicated to all the people whose endeavors center around things that are tied to the study of the cosmos in some way or another. Clocking in at almost forty-four minutes, the record is neither too short nor too long, emphasizing on another level how it manages to strike a good sense of balance. After several listens, I can happily say that I haven’t felt any filler moments whatsoever, which is, again, not a common occurrence. This is due mostly to how it is all strung together. The whole album is laid down on a foundation that relies on the slow development and easy going tempo of ambient music and downtempo while laying some IDM/glitch seeds to bloom across almost effortlessly. These seeds don’t adhere strictly to any set convention that you would encounter on other works that are labeled as such, rather these seeds take the essence of the soil in which they were placed, making it so that when they do bloom, they do so in a one of a kind way. Each song holds some unique charm and it would be somehow counter-productive to go into exhaustive detail for each. I would also like to mention that the album is produced very nicely, fleshing out every increment exactly as you would expect it to sound like given what you’ve h
