Hey all in Dev world!
I was bored today and I thought I'd take the time to show you all a little observation I made on Devin's music. I have seen this kind of topic before in other postings and such but never really saw it explained in real detail. Since I had started listening to Dev I had made these connections between his albums and the various elements of nature.
We all know every one of his albums hold a distinct mood, flavor and landscape and I thought I'd share with you some of my thoughts on possible themes of each work relating to our natural and fantasical surroundings. I included the SYL albums since each of them holds a certain distinctness too.
Ocean Machine - Ocean (Or Water)
This is defenetly a no-brainer. We all know that the common string that holds these songs together is the essence of water. The album sounds like actual waves sometimes calm and serene gently rippling like 3am and The Death Of Music or storming into a viscious cresendo like Regulator or Bastard. The music hear constantly shifts and sways effortlessly like the tide and smoothly like blankets over your tired body. It seems like the ears never need to strain to listen to this album, only to allow themselves to drift with its flowing nature. Its epicness and innocence echoes the vastness and power of the oceans themselves. Songs that seem to come flooding out of its celestial voice.
Terria - Forest
Even Dev himself has been quoted as this being his "Earth" album. I would like to take it a step further to narrow down to his "forest" album simply because of its tenderness and complexity, and also the sounds of birdsong, flutes and all kinds of wildlife give me a pretty good clue on its nature. That's not to mention the actual songs themselves hold sort of a woodsy feel to them. The acoustics of Deep Peace over a potpourri of green noise. The tribal playfulness of Down And Under. Even some of the lyrics lead to a wilderness feel such as Canada and Mountian. The songs here seem to stem from a primative state, not stripped down persay but just very rooted and alive filled with little colorful surpises almost like a walk in the middle of a rainforest.
Physicist - Outer Space
Someone once said on this forum (can't remember who) that this album sounded like a bunch of alien spaceships that just touched down on our planet, like a little happy-go-lucky welcoming celebration. That always stuck with me because from the start I always had visions when listening to this album of blasting through the vastness of space at light speed watching all the fragments of planets and stars pass me as I gleefully go. (Or something like that). The songs though heavy and speedy are never weighed down with anger or violence but act more like a intergalactic spaceship ride through the cosmos. Every note like a twinkling star and every blastbeat the nitros on your little cylinder engines pushing you forward. The atmosphere on this album and the way the songs sort of gently crash into each other is metaphorically like the way the universe is constantly changing, exploding, racing to expand itself much like the album races by to widen and become almost infinite by the time Planet Rain comes on.
Accelerated Evolution - Sky
I had to think a little about this one at first, but after awhile there was no doubt in my mind that this album's expansive and almost simplistic nature related to the sky in many ways. First off, the way that these songs open up slowly and almost hypnotically unfold was like watching the clouds slowly roll by overhead. Sometimes you can see clouds painlessly merge to form another cloud and so on reshaping the decoration against the baby blue vastness yet never really causing the entire sky to morph enough for you to notice. Its in the way some songs on AE change yet without really listening can pass by your ears without picking up on it. Surely the epic nature Of AE is in direct connection with the endless palette of the sky. While Deadhead could be a song of a clear night sky of vast arrays of stars and Sunday Afternoon can be of cotton ball clouds and bright Florida blues and Storm can be...well?...like watching a raging rain release its burdens.
Infinity - ?
The reason I put a question mark there is simply the fact that Infinity has its roots deep into something completely alien. It could almost be the soundtrack to the imagination. The limitless of creativity. The actual music of life itself. Whatever it is, its deep and its something not easily translated to words, which is why I'm not even going to try and explain it in detail. This album holds a different deep meaning to everyone here and trying to explain it would simply be rude to me. I don't think this album was meant to be fully picked apart anyway. It's way to involved. But if I had to come up with something I would say its the music of God.
Devlab - Desert
Now don't get me wrong. In no ways is this album bland and featureless as my little desert defenition would have you believe. But the absence of traditional instruments, song structures and basic musical scope remind me of the absence and disconnections associated with a desert landscape. Fragments of sounds are like fragments of sand. The shifting audio is like shifting dunes under the tender wind. Beautiful and dismal, barren yet never boring. Sometimes loud and intense like a sandstorm or barely heard like the rays of the hot still sun.
I was going to do the SYL albums too in this post but its getting late and I'm tired
. But I assure you I will get to them soon in another post. Hope you enjoy my thoughts. Remember, in no way am I making facts and statements about these albums, these are just little observations I've made. It really makes listening to his music a whole other level of enjoyment. Like an entire world constructed out of his work. And hopefully, some of you might take something from what I've wrote, but if you're anything like me I'm sure you already have your own meanings behind his music. It's all good because its all in what you feel. This is what its all about isn't it? Feelings.
I was bored today and I thought I'd take the time to show you all a little observation I made on Devin's music. I have seen this kind of topic before in other postings and such but never really saw it explained in real detail. Since I had started listening to Dev I had made these connections between his albums and the various elements of nature.
We all know every one of his albums hold a distinct mood, flavor and landscape and I thought I'd share with you some of my thoughts on possible themes of each work relating to our natural and fantasical surroundings. I included the SYL albums since each of them holds a certain distinctness too.
Ocean Machine - Ocean (Or Water)
This is defenetly a no-brainer. We all know that the common string that holds these songs together is the essence of water. The album sounds like actual waves sometimes calm and serene gently rippling like 3am and The Death Of Music or storming into a viscious cresendo like Regulator or Bastard. The music hear constantly shifts and sways effortlessly like the tide and smoothly like blankets over your tired body. It seems like the ears never need to strain to listen to this album, only to allow themselves to drift with its flowing nature. Its epicness and innocence echoes the vastness and power of the oceans themselves. Songs that seem to come flooding out of its celestial voice.
Terria - Forest
Even Dev himself has been quoted as this being his "Earth" album. I would like to take it a step further to narrow down to his "forest" album simply because of its tenderness and complexity, and also the sounds of birdsong, flutes and all kinds of wildlife give me a pretty good clue on its nature. That's not to mention the actual songs themselves hold sort of a woodsy feel to them. The acoustics of Deep Peace over a potpourri of green noise. The tribal playfulness of Down And Under. Even some of the lyrics lead to a wilderness feel such as Canada and Mountian. The songs here seem to stem from a primative state, not stripped down persay but just very rooted and alive filled with little colorful surpises almost like a walk in the middle of a rainforest.
Physicist - Outer Space
Someone once said on this forum (can't remember who) that this album sounded like a bunch of alien spaceships that just touched down on our planet, like a little happy-go-lucky welcoming celebration. That always stuck with me because from the start I always had visions when listening to this album of blasting through the vastness of space at light speed watching all the fragments of planets and stars pass me as I gleefully go. (Or something like that). The songs though heavy and speedy are never weighed down with anger or violence but act more like a intergalactic spaceship ride through the cosmos. Every note like a twinkling star and every blastbeat the nitros on your little cylinder engines pushing you forward. The atmosphere on this album and the way the songs sort of gently crash into each other is metaphorically like the way the universe is constantly changing, exploding, racing to expand itself much like the album races by to widen and become almost infinite by the time Planet Rain comes on.
Accelerated Evolution - Sky
I had to think a little about this one at first, but after awhile there was no doubt in my mind that this album's expansive and almost simplistic nature related to the sky in many ways. First off, the way that these songs open up slowly and almost hypnotically unfold was like watching the clouds slowly roll by overhead. Sometimes you can see clouds painlessly merge to form another cloud and so on reshaping the decoration against the baby blue vastness yet never really causing the entire sky to morph enough for you to notice. Its in the way some songs on AE change yet without really listening can pass by your ears without picking up on it. Surely the epic nature Of AE is in direct connection with the endless palette of the sky. While Deadhead could be a song of a clear night sky of vast arrays of stars and Sunday Afternoon can be of cotton ball clouds and bright Florida blues and Storm can be...well?...like watching a raging rain release its burdens.
Infinity - ?
The reason I put a question mark there is simply the fact that Infinity has its roots deep into something completely alien. It could almost be the soundtrack to the imagination. The limitless of creativity. The actual music of life itself. Whatever it is, its deep and its something not easily translated to words, which is why I'm not even going to try and explain it in detail. This album holds a different deep meaning to everyone here and trying to explain it would simply be rude to me. I don't think this album was meant to be fully picked apart anyway. It's way to involved. But if I had to come up with something I would say its the music of God.
Devlab - Desert
Now don't get me wrong. In no ways is this album bland and featureless as my little desert defenition would have you believe. But the absence of traditional instruments, song structures and basic musical scope remind me of the absence and disconnections associated with a desert landscape. Fragments of sounds are like fragments of sand. The shifting audio is like shifting dunes under the tender wind. Beautiful and dismal, barren yet never boring. Sometimes loud and intense like a sandstorm or barely heard like the rays of the hot still sun.
I was going to do the SYL albums too in this post but its getting late and I'm tired
. But I assure you I will get to them soon in another post. Hope you enjoy my thoughts. Remember, in no way am I making facts and statements about these albums, these are just little observations I've made. It really makes listening to his music a whole other level of enjoyment. Like an entire world constructed out of his work. And hopefully, some of you might take something from what I've wrote, but if you're anything like me I'm sure you already have your own meanings behind his music. It's all good because its all in what you feel. This is what its all about isn't it? Feelings.
