“It’s a horror show“ is how Josef Saint from the Baltimore based band Nahja Mora describes their new album AHFHAOTA. A dark ride exploring some very personal subjects the album is meant to be a warning to the listener. With a dissonant and off-kilter feel the album is a gloomy descent.
The lyrics on the album are ad-libbed except for the track “One Day” which was based on a poem written by Saint when he was a teenager and “Give Way To Shadow” which is another version of a song from As Death.
“ONE DAY” feels like embarking on a twisted journey with confusion setting in as the song progresses. “Give Way To Shadow” (Reprise) drags the listener into what sounds like a demented dystopic carnival with a rhythmic, skewed sound. “the scene is set” confronts the listener with disturbing and pleading intonations, further heralding the dark ride they have started on. With threatening voices and a paranoid beat “Ash Grey World” pulls the listener further into a dark sort of madness. “Scatter” is filled with gnarled, hellish sounds that have an unsettling effect. “down” accosts the listener with a repetitive industrial sound and a distorted soundscape. With a dramatic symphonic rise “The Bleeding” hurries the listener to a still darker place. “Summary Vile” teases and taunts the listener with a buzzing distortion that feels like an accompaniment to madness. A dizzying and disorientating soundscape greets the listener in “windchime”. “to the dawn a Knife” uses an industrial clanging that feels like a polluted heart beat to take the listener to a deeper place of despair. Nightmarish voices and a disturbingly askew and taunting sound accompanies the listener in “Cairo Aflame”. Finally “in the Field” gives a moment of nature and lucidity before plunging the listener still further into a bleak and gloomy place.
Though AHFHAOTA explores a breakdown
of self, Saint suggests that “The point
is we have to take care of one another”.
Links:
Youtube : (102) Nahja Mora - Ash World Grey - YouTube
Webpage: Nahja Mora
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