Darker Matter
by Comaduster
yelworK
yelworK
Dense, cryptic electronic that can whet the appetite of electro industrial and dubstep fans alike. Stick with the vocal version here, as his lyrics are worth your attention.
Spino Prime
Spino Prime
A massive album in every sense. In terms of it's lengthy runtime (nearly an hour and a half long), in terms of it's colossal sound, and in terms of it's staggering intricacy and detail. Despite it's duration, it avoids ever feeling repetitive due to an impressive commitment to variety; mixing it's electronic, hard rock, and atmospheric elements in completely unique ways all throughout so that it always stays fresh and exciting. Overall a "monolithic" masterpiece.
Favorite track: What Can Never Be Taken From You.
DJ D:\VOID
DJ D:\VOID
words are failing me to describe the genius of this album. At the very least, this album is as beautiful as it is disruptive. As in it changes your perception of what is possible in electronic music.The attention to detail is astonishing, this is an album to get lost in, and find yourself.
It's going to take me quite awhile to process these songs. If I can find the words to review this album correctly, I'll post an edit. Don't count on it, lol. Words fail. Favorite track: Bad Blood.
It's going to take me quite awhile to process these songs. If I can find the words to review this album correctly, I'll post an edit. Don't count on it, lol. Words fail. Favorite track: Bad Blood.
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1. |
Cast Your Shadow
04:40
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Don’t cast your shadow on me
I’m in the dark
And I am stranger than God
Black on black is my defense
You telegraph and I dodge
Nothing to me changes
If not for windy days
I’d be faceless
No! Don’t let me dissolve in to the darkest fringes, Love
You want to be a saviour
But
I’m your worst enemy
A vacant stranger
No! Don’t let me dissolve in to the darkest fringes, Love
Fleeting the real things are so hard to see now
Fleeting the real things are so hard to see now
Fleeting the real things are so hard to see now
Fleeting the real things are so hard to see now
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failure2
04:31
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I stayed here in the clouds
Am I failure?
Am I silver?
Then I saw you you going down
You were golden before I knew you fell
(Until the end)
(To the end)
(At the end we will fall)
But I can tell you feel this
Underneath us all
But hiding in the dirt doesn’t suit you
Stop and let your steel words
Fragile pieces
Melt Away
(In failure)
Gone
And we fell from great heights
Where the ocean meets the sun
I stayed here in the clouds
Am I failure?
Am I silver?
Then I saw you you going down
You were golden before I knew you fell
But I can tell you feel this
Underneath us all
But hiding in the dirt doesn’t suit you
Stop and let your steel words
Fragile pieces
Melt Away
(In failure)
But I can tell you feel this
Underneath us all
But hiding in the dirt doesn’t suit you
Stop and let your steel words
Fragile pieces
Melt Away
(In failure)
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3. |
Fever Rift
05:44
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Have I put the fire out?
Or deceived only
The menacing eyes
Sewn in
That follow me
A fragmented patterned skin weaves out
Wove in to a horrific shroud
Brazen and silver we dug in
To signal the damage incoming
Set on fire
We just need to know for sure
Set on fire
With needles threading under burning
Step on the pyre
Sleep walking through the halls of dirt
Set on fire
This fever's rift is open
Centered
With in somber reach
I sense annihilation
Grasp my throat
Time
Shape
Feel
Same / safe
Hold / warm
Grey / space
Free me / beaming dark
I alone
Hold the stained iron
On a table of suns
In a fever's rift
So I'll embrace a metaphoric view
It's just a walk between two sheltered rooms
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I walk the world
On muted lines
Gripping fear
That someone will see us here
You’re more my size
A bark as loud as my bite
Come save me from my self
Come save me oh
The Pain in my heart
Carried all the time
The hush of your voice
The weapons we ride
The pain in my heart
Discard it into dust
Let it go
Let the sun Illuminate us both and make us so
I’m underground
Explosive lay lines
Fragile times
Under pressure we both hide
With a gripping fear
That someone will catch us here
I know those eyes
Don’t tell me to tell a lie
I walk the world
Disputing skylines
Shift your eyes
I try to fight
Words that are buried inside
A laser eye
Illuminated hollow insides
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5. |
Pyramids
04:02
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Upside Down
Upside Down
Upside Down
Up and Down
Up and Down
Up and Down
All Around
All Around
All Around
Just Slow Down
Just Slow Down
Just Slow Down
I see you looking back down
Eyes meet in mid glance
From atop your pyramids you call
And it echoes through my walls
It goes on forever
It goes on forever
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6. |
Decimate The Burden
05:26
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Glide low to stay hidden
A payload deforms truth before you
Lie to yourself
Because you’re a tired soul
Oh
Crease, divide and fold
The pages that could not tell you
Where to go
Not you
Not now
Your origami door
Won’t weather this elemental firestorm
No
Decimate the burden
Recrystalize defeat
To show a little courage
Leave nothing warm and breathing
So lie to yourself
No matter what you’ve been told
No
You will not feel
You will not heal
Not you
Not now
Let not a grudge define you
(its just) a recurrent hostage taking thought
If I decimate your burdens
Will I stigmatize your grief?
If I could show some courage
To see if I’m still breathing
I knew the way
But I knew I couldn’t help you
It’s like chloroform was pouring through the awnings
Ignite the lanterns on your way
Dither not, decimate the burdens
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7. |
Darker Matter
07:24
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Dream yourself to save
The pull of you that’s left between the waves
Could I feel and hear if you displaced the air
Distant signal flares, or were you really there?
You’re invisible to me
In transparence
Of innocence
A haze of gravity
No light to penetrate you or me
Iridescence not within
The darker matter that swings between us now
Dream yourself away
The pull of you
Shredding time and space
You’re invisible to me
An entrancing trace
Of a massless state of being
Could I feel and hear if you displaced the air
Distant signal flares, or were you really there?
A haze of gravity
No light to penetrate you or me
Iridescence not within
The darker matter that swings between us now
Dream yourself away
The pull of you
Shredding time and space
Shredding time and space
Shredding time and space
A haze of gravity
No light to penetrate you or me
Iridescence not within
The darker matter that swings between us now
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8. |
A Somnolent Descent
02:44
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Following The Night
04:50
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If all is true
Remain the vault
Hide in leaden hope
Shed
But hold a credible grip on life
Don’t draw a line I’ll never want to cross
I’m tired of sliding
Into following the night
To bring you home
A fate
I hold again
I’m following the night
To bring you home
If all is true
Remain with the stars
Brighten dread with gold
Defend
And hold incredible eclipsing might
Deprive the light they never should have stole
I’m tired of sliding
Into following the night
To bring you home
A fate
I hold again
I’m following the night
To bring you home
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10. |
Nebulous Amorphous
04:19
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How was I supposed to know
The oracle of failure would help me choose?
Between the pendulum’s cleave
Or the key to the sun
I breath light
I breath time
A function of the aftermath
Sinusoidal movement shook and broke me too
The pendulum’s cleave
Bifurcated us all
I breath light
I breath time
(but) I don’t expect you to follow me
Don’t follow me
We journey into the sun at dawn
Just hold that feeling and run until you are
On fire
Burning in to a nebulous
Amorphous cloud of angel dust
Just watch
Desire will pass you by
I breath light
I breath time
I don’t expect you to follow me
Don’t follow me
We journey into the sun at dawn
Just hold that feeling and run until you are
On fire
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What you can never take away
You’ll never take away
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Born and set for the river
With an oath to carry our old
We will follow their sound
And never be heard
And always steer clear of the road
What will we do with the bodies?
We’ll be rolling down the river
Rolling down the river
Soil and clay in dredges
And we’ll never find the ring
Sombre and blind
We lowered the vice
But what can we see anyway
What will we do with the bodies?
We’ll be rolling down the river
Rolling down the river
To the sea
Unsaid we departed
That oath now carries us on
We will fall in to sounds
And inlets abound
Where a sorrow resides in each cove
Cracked ice and leaves fallen
Boom
We hit a stone, we’re riverbound
Light fires to the ties
We’ve left for home
All of that is gone
Shining light, Horizon
Deliver us
Alive and whole
Blinding bright harvest songs
We’ll miss you all
We’ll miss you
We’re soil and clay under bridges
For we’ve never found the ring
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13. |
Bad Blood
05:19
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The elder gods reached out
To you
We circle in protection
But it closes like a noose
(battle in my mind I just want to stay alive)
Bad blood
I could feel you from the start
Descending down the window
Wiping out the feral ones
We await the truth
But this is just a sad turn
To the cradle of disease
(battle in my mind I just want to stay alive)
Bad Blood
I could feel you from the start
Slowly breaking inwards
Whiten all of the outcomes
Bad Blood
I can smell you as you hunt
Wholey draining my existence
Until I’m of the feral ones
Lay awake and talk to
A shadow in the corner
Magic in the water
Blended or single sourced? / What could I say that matters?
But
Are you here to heal me?
Because there is not a greenscreen
Just a dream veiled presence
A body traded for this
Will I not be with you?
Draped in cosmic sinew
Bursting through the visions
Through crystalline dimensions
Arcing from your essence
Felt eternal in kin
Passing through the unknown
I wish I could have known you
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If I’d never spoke to you
And reached out from the dark
Would there be a plot for me?
How would it even start?
How long has it been since we counted all the stars?
Or drifted into empty thoughts?
Of times that we’d forgot
“Well catch up later”
But you’re gone
And I still
Hold on
To a void in my life
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15. |
Escape Velocity
06:41
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I signed my effigy
And pushed it from the highest towers
It fell fast, but not to speed
Now
I don’t know
Am I ever gonna cross the limits placed on me but not on you
What am I to do about this?
Waiting on some latent power
Gauging at ever turn
You are bound to breach the speed
(I am out of reach)
(signals beacon)
And break escape velocity
(Over your shoulder)
(I’m under cloud cover)
From the wars
[ now you’re in a dream ]
(The sky is wide and you are streaking through the atmosphere)
You never chose to fight
Inside
[ But can you find some solitude? ]
Nothing I can do about it
I don’t have some super power
Hidden away from us
Nothing I can do about it
What am I to do about this?
Nothing I can do about it
(I am out of reach)
(Signal beacons over your shoulder)
(I’m under cloud cover)
Free from the wars
(The sky is wide and you are streaking through the atmosphere)
That you need to not to fight alone, alone
(I am out of reach)
[ Now you’re in a dream but you can you find some solitude? ]
(singal’s weakened, over and out now, over and out yeah)
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Division until resonance
The light you never see never see’s itself shine
Hidden
2
Oscillations take you places
In dark spaces we can’t define
Perception confined
To
3
An ordered place
Where can space ourselves out wide
And hope to dissolve with the best of the universe
Hope to end as light
So you never have to see
Yourself
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about
Now in proud partnership with FiXT, the third full-length Comaduster album from veteran musician, video game sound designer and electronic music producer Réal Cardinal, is here. Titled Darker Matter, the 16 track album delivers a densely packed odyssey of sound and emotion, exploring the realms of IDM, Drum and Bass and post-rock sensibilities while simultaneously merging elements of Americana folk music, djent and doom metal, further accompanied by dark ambient shadows. The album’s intricate music production is juxtaposed by powerful vocal performances from Comaduster himself, as well as multiple tracks featuring the talented female vocalist, Mari Kattman.
Though not a concept album -- at least not nearly as much as the previous Comaduster album Solace -- the album is heavily inspired by our deep but incomplete understanding of extreme physics, and metaphysical aspects of our lives. The emotional core is much more personal and direct than anything Cardinal has previously produced, resulting in a darker and grittier atmosphere than previous Comaduster albums.
Exploring themes of occult imagery, alchemic mystery, paradoxical physics, and harsh science fiction, Darker Matter takes on these tropes with musical interpretations pushing into the limitations of digital editing, time-stretching, vocal processing, time signature complexities, labyrinthian rhythm structures, intentional audio abuse and noise artifacts.
The unifying element throughout the 80 minute album journey though is Comaduster himself, the dark mage, responsible for each sonic manipulation as he pushes & pulls listeners through hidden associations and obscurity to interconnectedness and passage through his elaborate maze.
Prepare for a transformative experience with Darker Matter.
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I Die:You Die
www.idieyoudie.com
--"It’s a difficult, if not impossible to really contain Comaduster’s work in the space of a standard review, especially on this LP which is by turns impressionistic, monolithic, ephemeral and immediate. I’ve listened to it easily a dozen times and I still don’t feel like I fully grasp its intricacies. What stands out are its contrasts; a record that can have a song like the crashing, screeching, mutating title track share space with the beautiful, folky “Riverbound” (one of two standout guest spots from vocalist Mari Kattman) without ever feeling contradictory or incongruous is a hell of a thing. As with all of Réal Cardinal’s work, understanding it is less important than feeling it, never moreso than on Darker Matter. Recommended.
Buy it."
Though not a concept album -- at least not nearly as much as the previous Comaduster album Solace -- the album is heavily inspired by our deep but incomplete understanding of extreme physics, and metaphysical aspects of our lives. The emotional core is much more personal and direct than anything Cardinal has previously produced, resulting in a darker and grittier atmosphere than previous Comaduster albums.
Exploring themes of occult imagery, alchemic mystery, paradoxical physics, and harsh science fiction, Darker Matter takes on these tropes with musical interpretations pushing into the limitations of digital editing, time-stretching, vocal processing, time signature complexities, labyrinthian rhythm structures, intentional audio abuse and noise artifacts.
The unifying element throughout the 80 minute album journey though is Comaduster himself, the dark mage, responsible for each sonic manipulation as he pushes & pulls listeners through hidden associations and obscurity to interconnectedness and passage through his elaborate maze.
Prepare for a transformative experience with Darker Matter.
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Press:
I Die:You Die
www.idieyoudie.com
--"It’s a difficult, if not impossible to really contain Comaduster’s work in the space of a standard review, especially on this LP which is by turns impressionistic, monolithic, ephemeral and immediate. I’ve listened to it easily a dozen times and I still don’t feel like I fully grasp its intricacies. What stands out are its contrasts; a record that can have a song like the crashing, screeching, mutating title track share space with the beautiful, folky “Riverbound” (one of two standout guest spots from vocalist Mari Kattman) without ever feeling contradictory or incongruous is a hell of a thing. As with all of Réal Cardinal’s work, understanding it is less important than feeling it, never moreso than on Darker Matter. Recommended.
Buy it."
credits
released December 13, 2019
Written by: Réal Cardinal
Published by: FiXT Music
Produced by: Réal Cardinal
"Monolith" - lyrics and vocal recording by Mari Kattman
"Darker Matter" - additional 8 string guitar by Elijah Hennig
"Riverbound" - additional vocals by Mari Kattman
"Nebulous Amorphous", "Escape Velocity", "Following The Night" - additional guitars by Elijah Hennig
Written by: Réal Cardinal
Published by: FiXT Music
Produced by: Réal Cardinal
"Monolith" - lyrics and vocal recording by Mari Kattman
"Darker Matter" - additional 8 string guitar by Elijah Hennig
"Riverbound" - additional vocals by Mari Kattman
"Nebulous Amorphous", "Escape Velocity", "Following The Night" - additional guitars by Elijah Hennig
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