review
solarium is an album that showcases that all you really need to make great music is to hone in on your message and create a great experience
it is a groovy, layered, and just overall a good feeling album
it has great guitar work, great bass work, and sparse but meaningful introspective lyrics
the theme of the album boils down to taking things as they come and working towards being the best you possible with many other buddhist ideals sprinkled throughout
it does not however solely rely on vocals to push the theme
something that i love about this album is just how much it lets the instruments do the talking and paint the picture
solarium, reunited with the day, and endless stream are my favorite examples of this
the periods in these songs where there are no vocals and they’re just letting the instruments fly really let you get immersed in the music and it just creates a feeling of bliss
the entire concept of the album is something i really enjoyed and while it’s not an innovative breakthrough concept, i appreciate the way they executed the ideas
from the album title, solarium, and how that applies to being a person that is ‘see through’ and not phased by the world and the situation around them to the lyrics of dance in the sun promoting the journey of reaching towards enlightenment, another buddhist principle
its just very cohesive and to the point
at only 45 minutes, none of the songs really feel like filler, and they all add to the atmosphere
psychedelic rock is definitely a dime a dozen, but this take on it felt genuine and not pretentious
my only complaint being that in the first half some of the vocals were a bit too low energy for me and that really stood out as i got to the latter part of the album where the vocals definitely picked up
overall, this album was a great experience and one of the first albums i have listened to covering these topics that didn’t feel like it had its head way up its own ass