“Katabasis emphasizes on energy and tension over calm”
Man you can’t do much better than when someone writes this about your music:
Cathode Ray Tube’s work often evokes glittering hypermodern metropoli, rainy nights, and all those clichés burned into our minds. Katabasis revels in these images without irony, with great enthusiasm, and with deep connections to dub and IDM that sets its work apart from mere nostalgia. The aesthetic feels shallowly retro—looking back 20 years, tops—but with a sense or organic messiness and hope that provides it a fresher, more modern perspective, with a tripped-out angle that sets it apart.
I’m humbled by this whole review but perhaps this part the most:
Perhaps Cathode Ray Tube’s primary skill, across his many releases, is the ability to make extremely long albums, with luxuriously labyrinthine tracks which don’t wear out their welcome. That is a skill not to be undervalued or underplayed. Each song has just enough repetition to keep the listener in the headspace, just enough variation to keep the pieces evolving and changing to stay interesting. His mix density rewards repeated listening.
It’s no secret I write long ass longass songs. I’m glad someone else see they have as much girth as length. :)