One listen.

Went in, describing, sort of trying to get a mood across, I think. Not sure. The main goal was to do more than one thing today and I succeeded in that regard. I don’t think I wrote the best thing I could, but it is something.

Underworld’s “Appleshine (All Of The Lights)” is from Drift. Drift is a series of experimental releases. The first set is comprised of songs and videos Underworld put out between 2018 and 2019. They were also compiled both as a series of EPs and a full release known as Drift Series 1 – Complete. “Appleshine (All Of The Lights)” was on the EP EP 2: Atom and also included on the Complete release.

I hope you enjoy.

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A calm. A nice calm as sounds oscillate. Soft, dulled, peaceful, or muted. Rain music, almost. A music of emptiness. A music of space, forming. Taking shape.

A voice appears, getting across the right words. Getting across imagery, carrying narrative. Carrying stories. Weaving through sound to fill more sound. The voice stops and beat comes in, thumping softly. More percussion, cut and looped. Shuffling. Thumping and shuffling softly.

The voice returns, keeping its prominence and retaining its gentle flow. The beat fills a little more, and more voice comes in. Loops. Looping on “Know your name”. And other bits and pieces of sound come in here and there, forming flow. Forming progression until most stop and the main sounds get some focus.

The beat soon returns, and like a mechanical crackle, a sound that was there before, forming, taking shape carries a greater prominence in the background. The voice returns, confirming. Stating. It makes its knowing clear, and everything flows forward.

Something else appears, emphasising. Changing the form of the melody by adding to it. It is almost an open ceiling of sorts. It reinforces this rainy weather feel to the song, and perhaps a cloudy sky is what sits above. What sits out of reach and in full view, and things continue on and gradually disappear, leaving the main sounds once, fading away as the song ends.