"Yames" sounds like how someone whose languages uses the letter J for the palatal approximant and doesn't know how English orthography works would pronounce the name "James". It also sounds like "Ames". As far as names go, it's a pretty cool one.
01. "Big Burning River"
02. "Hydra"
03. "Song of the Sine"
04. "Rivering Laze"
05. "Diluvian Turn"
06. "Titan Floes"
07. "Cry in the Rain"
This album is interesting. In a way, it has the same somewhat uncanny vibe that Yames' games have... wait, you thought I wouldn't mention that Yames also makes games? I meant to not mention it, but I had to because it has the same kind of vibe and that comparison has to be made. (I haven't played any of his games myself, but I have watched videos on Youtube of other people playing them, and they seem pretty creepy and awesome.)
"Big Burning River" is a really good first track, in how it builds up from a simple bubbling ambient soundscape that could go in any direction to a sparkling bubbling mass with unicorns and rainbows galore. Yeah, that's the only thing I can think of when I hear this kind of synths playing this kind of melodies. Unicorns and rainbows. Halfway in, the unicorns begin to melt and the rainbows peel from the sky, revealing the malfunctioning machinery underneath. That's a pretty abstract thing to say, but this is a pretty abstract album, so...
"Hydra" sounds like sailing on a boat on a lake with high hills covered in tall palm trees on both sides, and mangroves extending far over the water. It's comforting, but you can't help but feel like something doesn't feel right. Like you've forgotten something you should be doing instead of wasting your time in that place. For some reason I often think of bodies of water when I think of what music sounds like, not just because the title of this album is Watered Bodies... anyway, you could say it's the most "mainstream" or "normal" of all the songs, and you wouldn't be wrong. That doesn't make it worse or better than the rest; the entire album is very solid and consistent with cool stuff sprinkled throughout.
The pushing and pulling rhythm of "Diluvian Turn" is very hypnotic, even more so than the rest of the album. Somehow it reminds me of a song I heard a long time ago but can't remember the first thing about, like it's tickling that part of my brain that's responsible for the creation of Mandela effects and for giving people a sense of familiarity with lost media they consciously know they can't have been familiar with.
The entire album sounds like it's alive, bubbling, wet, and has an air of mystery to it. It's like a lost album that one day washed ashore from the unknown depths of the ocean without an explanation, years after those who had once spent many sleepless nights trying to find it had given up on their search and concluded that its very existence was a false memory. As soon as they heard it, they knew it was the soundtrack of their childhood; yet, their parents had no memory of having ever heard of it and would swear that their children could never have heard it.
Enjoyability: 7/10
Relistenability: 7/10
Memorability: 9/10
Coherence: 7/10
Flow: 7/10
Originality: 8/10
Epicness: 5/10
Nutshell: Remember to water your bodies! I hope that means "stay hydrated". If it means something else... uh... just pretend I didn't say it?
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