Dark Entries' Robert Yang delivers his most introspective work yet - doomed spa music honoring lives lost, steeped in Buddhist meditation and tunnel-vision techno.
For fans of: Actress, Burial, John Carpenter, Coil, Demdike Stare
Decompose, an LP of doomed spa music. Multi-instrumentalist Robert Yang has made numerous appearances on Dark Entries for more than a decade, with releases spanning the stylistic gamut from hi-NRG disco floor-fillers to lush ambient epics. Decompose, Bezier's second LP, is perhaps his most introspective work yet - an album almost ten years in the making, a deep investigation of life, loss, and the struggle of knowing oneself.
The album honors the lives of the fallen victims of Pulse Nightclub and lives lost or suffering through the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The title track takes the form of a Buddhist chant, a brooding synth-driven meditation that scales steadily until breaking into John Carpenter-esque arpeggios halfway through. Tracks like "Egg," "Marionette," and "A Fading Citadel Atop Black Sand Bluffs" build on this soundworld, one in which intricate melodies and cavernous reverb induce feelings of both claustrophobia and free-fall. The album's dancefloor-leaning moments are spartan, tunnel-vision techno tracks speeding towards ego-death.
Decompose chronicles Yang's journey to find peace with himself, as a gay Asian American - learning to "repot" long-lost parts of their identity so they could grow forth in wholesome fashion.
