Charlatan: Vapor Tides (Debacle, 2024)

August 11, 2024 at 6:02 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Charlatan: Vapor Tides

The first track from this album, “Introduction to a Vulnerable World”, was used as the intro for a Foxy Digitalis podcast for a while, so it had been burned into my mind and I was looking forward to it finally getting a proper release. This is what the Brad Rose project sounds like in aquatic, somewhat psychedelic synth mode, and it’s just a lovely wash of lovely prismatic sounds. It seems silly to remark that already this sounds like a flashback to around 15 years ago when neo-new age synth music sounded fresh and new. Anyone who’s been into that stuff has heard so much of it by now that it doesn’t seem like there’s much that can be done with it that’s still different and exciting. Nevertheless, this one is just incredibly refreshing, the water sounds and textures meld together to form this perfect aqueous flow. Inevitaby Science of the Sea comes to mind, but this doesn’t feel like a plunge into depths of the ocean. Instead, like its title, it’s more of a gentle tidal mist, but it’s still an immersive one.

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