Hecq refrained from the glitch!
I had to listen to it twice before I knew what I thought. Simply because the entire first round was basically spent on the edge of my seat waiting for some glitchy breaks and some industrial thumps. About 50 minutes into the album I got past my denial and just realized that they were infact, not going to come. I knew I had to listen to this album with an entirely different ear now that it was apparent that it was going to be an entirely ambient album.
So I started it over.
It was dark, (thus the name, one would think) however it wasn’t the darkest ambient album I’d ever heard. It was dark but stayed light hearted with some very loud but well spread out piano hits. The first few tracks had a very Paul Ruskay Homeworld OST style to it, while as I got more toward the end it felt more along the lines of Stratvm Terror, or Necrophorus.
All in all it’s a good album, but realistically the next time I had the urge to listen to Hecq, I’d put on Bad Karma, A Dried Youth, or 0000.
The album cover reads the following:
“I am not myself. I am the one
Walking by my side, without me seeing him,
The one I often visit and the one I often forget.
The one, who remains silent when I speak,
Who gently forgives, when I hate, who wanders
Where I’m not, who will stay upright, when I die.”