I Am the Cave - Of Emerald Skies and Of Emerald Oceans

Review started on 2/8/2022 Anno Domini

Reviewed and Researched by - Jacob Xavier Harding


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Track Analysis


.Vs. (The Greatest Way is Up) Review - Begins with a soft guitar introduction, slow crescendo to begin the album. Vocals and drums kick in together to begin the song in full. Slow beat supporting the lyrics as the narrator is telling a story about his relationship with a woman. Prophecy and forewarning in lyrics. Slow and soft breakdown as the song dives in to a deeper subject matter, as the lyrical content rebounds and shows how the narrator is capable of moving pass this point in his life. The breakdown doubles in speed and increases energy, and carries a perdinent message. The song slows back down again, allowing the energy of the lyrics to take the stage,'These people were born free', alluding that something has changed, and has placed a majority of individuals in to slavery. There is a special moment hidden here, in which the lyrical content coincides with the effect and deliver of the audio, 'We twisted in two', as the audio signal splits the vocal line in to two parts, one playing in the left ear, the other playing in the right ear, rejoining back in the middle of the audio track with the line, 'Divided till We become whole inside of You'

Lyrical Content - Starts off with an intimate detail of a past relationship, the narrator goes in to detail about how he is hurt. The lyrics continue on, showing that the narrator is continuing his life with the one who hurt him. The narrator reveals the location and destination of his life, to California, to sojourn for awhile while building up his soul. The story leaves the narrator behind and travels back to Biblical times, inferring that the listeners should return to Egypt. The lyrics here go through various intense images. 'Hourglass inverts time to enable us to play our hand, we must stop folding', implying that the listener now has the time to make their move, and alludes to Texas Hold Em', a hand card game. 'Stop drifting in Denial Alone', calls back to the starting phrase of 'Pharoahs land', a double entente of the listener being in denial, and also revealing a location inside of Egypt, the Nile River.

Additional Information - Title is a mathematical phrasing, of the greater and less than sign (< >), but instead facing up. Implying that Heaven is the greatest pathway.


Tulie Imp He Didn't Get it

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Additional Information - Title is a hidden phrasing of (Truly Impodent He didn't Get it)


Ship Ship, No Slip for Rent

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Tuxedo For A Chariot Night

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Additional Information - 'A Chariot Night', is meant to symbolize a Abrahamic story of the Prophet Elijah riding on a Chariot of Fire up to Heaven.


Reginald Wasn't a Man

Review - Love song talking of past loves. Talking of marriage and the failure to join in union. Slow paced, picks up and transforms lyrically in to a political song about drug pharma companies and over-working.

Additional Information - The ending lyrics, talking about an 'allergen free suicide note', is derived from an overdose involving the over the counter drug known as benaydryl.


Solace Echoes

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The Undying Sol of the Sun

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Serramonte

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Additional Information - Originally Titled as (Sir A Montaey) to conceal the location.


Ty Diro

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Mountain Saint Mountain

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Additional Information - Title may also be read as (Mt. St. Mt.)


Hello Today

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Depths

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Last Day, Off

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ET

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Additional Information - Track title is a triple entente, meant to mean ExtraTerrestrial, 'et' the latin word for 'and', since this is the middle interlude track of the album, and also meant to represent the 'and' in 'Of Amber Skies /and/ of Emerald Oceans'


Autist Sapien

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Additional Information - The opening quote is from the Movie 'Independence Day'.


Nashism

Review - Starts out with vocals, drums, and guitar. Minimal sound scapes, driven by vocals. Discusses betrayal. Slowly building in energy and addresses overcoming betrayal. Identifies the value of caring for other human beings. Song transform and picks up in tempo, addresses a new topic, that we are alive. Rips in to a digital synthetic sounding guitar solo.

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I Am Relapsing Constantly To Avoid This

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Rebranding Only the Fourth Empire Could Know

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River Swamp Revelations

Review - ELectronic fast-paced buildup in the beginning, transitions in to a disco-shoegaze, casual-paced and lyrically driven song.

Additional Information - Louis XVI was the French King during the French Revolution, and was executed by the revolutionaries.


Tripping Up

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The 51st State (The State of Change)

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Additional Information - Meant to be a phrase embedded with American signifigance, since there at current 50 States of the United States of America, the title name implying that the 51st state would be a state of change.


Wave Wave Hello Goodbye

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Li(Ve(Fe))

Review - Electronic piece, lyrics are inspiring and meant to uplift and also raise awareness within the listener of the world around us. Lyrics speak to climate change and pollution.

Additional Information - Title is meant to be read as (Live Life)


Rigin Tipro

Review - Long guitar introduction. Near the end, there is a Nirvana-esque breakdown that sends chills down my spine.

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OPIN

Review - Long electronic composition, closing my eyes to listen. Begins, transcended in to an open field, listening to what sounds like airplanes, most probably propeller bombers, heading towards a destination I have yet to have been to. Towards the end I imagine myself in war-time France, listening to the outcry of the French citizens fighting back against Germany during the second World WarS.

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Open Bomb Bay Doorse

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FeelDieRepeat

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Welcome to Could Never Retain Us

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Additional Information - The track name is a play on words of, (Welcome to Las Vegas)


I Am the Cave

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Album Analysis


Total Listens

Three, One at the albums unveiling, once while smoking cigarettes while watching the mostly lit moon moving at night, and while preparing for this album review.


Album Length

With 29 tracks, and around a two hour listen time, this is an album that requires dexterity to listen to all the way through in a single sitting.


Mode of Listening

I have listened to this album through headphones of various styles and quality.


Structure

I enjoy the structure of the album, the beginning structure before 'ET', has it's own thematic feeling while the tracks after 'ET' transition in to a soundscape that incorporates similar lyrical content while almost entirely changing the instrumentation. The lyrical content through out features romance and relationship heavily, while various songs examine history, religion, and contemporary politics circa 2017 Anno Domini.