Odyssey

 

    Ever since hearing a couple of the tracks from this a long time ago and enjoying them more than I thought I would, I've wanted to listen to some of Home's other stuff, but haven't gotten around to it until now, with this site being the major reason why I finally took the plunge. I'm not very experienced in the vaporwave/purely synthetic genre and style of music, so excuse me if my commentary isn't that well informed. As mentioned, all of the songs on Odyssey are, from what I can tell, all completely synthetic and generated with no lyrics. This makes it hard to nail down any real tone or theme in the album, due to the lack of any words or familiar elements (for me). If I had to at least describe how it felt when listening, I'd say that it had a sense of melancholy, nostalgia, and some sort of subtle yearning for... something; I'm not sure, maybe someone else could describe it better or something else entirely, because there's nothing truly solid here. I think that my interpretation stems from how a good amount of the songs were slower, with heavier beats and a feeling of something lost in the past (it doesn't make sense, I know). The tunes and melodies in the album themselves were great. Each song seemed to have one or two and had their own ways of introducing, evolving, and combining melodies in brilliant ways, creating new sounds with the same motifs in the same track, but making a new tone. Again, I don't have much experience with this type of music, so my analysis may be a little confusing. Overall though, I think that this album has a pretty good lineup of songs, all unique yet contributing to an overall tone of introspection in some form. 

    Highlights: Native, Decay, Odyssey, Resonance, Half Moon

Rating: 5/6