Freed From the World Review

i have to admit, due to being born into a world that already had internet it's not something i think about particularly often, but it's pieces like these that truly force me to confront how much of an insane blessing it is that anyone can just post anything. there are plenty of reasons a more cynical person might deem something like this as less legitimate. "it was made by a 15 year old!" "it's just loops, how could that be meaningful?" but over time, all these factors have only further reinforced it's beauty for me. it's beautiful specifically BECAUSE the creator did almost nothing with these samples. they could have made it much more complicated, sure, but why would they? if something is more difficult to make, does that inherently make it better? would it not lose the beautifully haunting quality brought on by it's absolute minimalism?

the cover is also incredibly striking to me. for those of you who don't know, the character pictured here is Kamille Bidan from Zeta Gundam, it's also one of those instances where the image is actually a bit bigger than the bandcamp crop would have you believe and the only way to really know that is to click on it. when you do click on it, however, you're immediately struck by something else. somehow this cover also gets across that "haunting beauty brought on by absolute minimalism" vibe with just a picture, it's a simple screenshot, a pixelated version of a vhs image, two layers of digital decay over top of one another. i honestly don't think i could choose something more thematically fitting.