Spacey... in a nostalgic kind of way.
It starts off like an exploration movie of the old days. Someone venturing out to the stars. Looking for new life. A futuristic vessel, a flagship of humankind, on a venture for aliens and adventure. Powerful.
I love the build initially, with the bops and beeps and atmosphere, and how intense everything stays thereafter. The synth is a welcome addition, in layers, sounds like there's maybe some guitar there too, the pace grows, the rockets or jets or whatever kind of boosters (?) that seem sampled throughout are a cool addition as well, though they do somewhat seem to disrupt the music a bit. It's like a relevant but re-occurring disturbance throughout, that comes in at sometimes frustratingly frequent intervals.
The first time it jets in caught me off guard too. A bit loud then, compared to the music overall.
The composition overall feels like maybe the one weakness with this song, with both that continual disruption, and how it never really breaks pace or rhythm, though the intensity and volume goes down occasionally; the instrumentation changes too, it never really breaks form, the structure's the same throughout.
The sound design overall is amazing, and I love the move from synth to strings towards the end of it too. It's like it moves through time somewhat, like it's a venture not just through space but trends and genres - an evolution of the audio odyssey in parallel with the planetary one.
Really enjoyed this one. Unique, spacey, atmospheric and energetic in an awesome kind of way. It's both hopeful and melancholy somehow, as space travel seems to be... I like the sound quality shift towards the end too, with the added clarity, though it ends a bit abruptly after that.
And the name hmm, what does it mean? Interesting name.
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