A big emotive expression, experiencing and surviving the process of painfully breaking free of the past by extreme means, somehow always staying calm and quietly passionate.
Cinematic grand atmospheres, dramatic darkness
What I hear is a big emotive expression, experiencing and surviving the process of painfully breaking free of the past by extreme means, somehow always staying calm and quietly passionate. There are four tracks, each about 20 minutes in length. Brock Van Wey is bvdub and Inquiri is Lacey Harris, providing vocals, lyrics, and additional instrumentation; Katsuyuki and Zach also played important roles in this production. “I make music about my life. I make music about life. I make music for life.”
In the past I have reviewed bvdub and I still cannot make out most of the passionate words, so I am going with the way the sound makes me feel, ascending tragic cinematic grand atmospheres, dramatic darkness. The artist talks about Destroyesterday., “I feel this is a seminal work for me.” What I hear is intensely personal, displaying ample passion and romance with lots of reverb. “I’ve tried for the past untold amount of time to come up with some kind of poetic words for this, as is normally my way. And I still don’t really know what to say.”
Hear dark storms slowly pass ::
Behold, “All the Weight of the World” (20:55) with floating instrumental zones with aetheric vocals, an angelic voice with an old-sounding piano. Hear dark storms slowly pass by and understand that it is so hard to go through this, yet somehow we find our way. Next, a voice within a close echoey microphone, “Alone in Crimson” (20:07), calling out through the aftermath. I hear crashing chords in slow motion, things get dense and intense, then they ease out a bit until eventually the drama builds and builds into langoring anguish. Guitar with the piano, slowly rising to amazing heights, quite frightening.
Instrumentals and ethereal vocal echoes raining down in sheets, with lightning and thunder in places. There is a painful lesson exposed here, not all romances are predictable, it is complex finding yourself weeping and tender, “Please Let Go and Let Me Hold You” (20:17). These complex sequences combine pain with a redemption glow, explaining the heart to another. Now we finish with the title track, which has a solemn adagio feeling, “Destroyesterday” (18:06). Melodic tapestries of words and echoes, all is lost, all is broken to pieces. After this loss, now we are free at last, standing in the rubble and dust that was the world asking those questions that follow the pain.
Destroyesterday. is available on Bandcamp.
