Marble Raft “Geography A”
Marble Raft Release Euphoria Album Geography A
Photo credit: Boel BermannMarble Raft paints a sonic wonderland with bright, glistening sounds that filled the space with brilliant and glimmering visions. There’s an overall optimism in Marble Raft’s music that gives their sound a unique sunshine glow. Like a voyage heading into the undiscovered sea and islands, Geography A features nine various songs that take you on different adventures.
“Masses of Water” opens the album with rich and vibrant psychedelic soundscapes that swirls in the fluid-like orchestration. Marble Raft utilizes a combination of warm, celestial sounds to depict a musical world that is just as magical as a candy house, making the impossible come true, while the duo’s voices join together, calls and responses, sharing this vision in song form.
Marble Raft’s lyrics are the ones to pay extra attention to. The lines act as the guidelines to the sound that fulfill the imageries with specifics and deeper meanings. There’s always a certain feel that comes from the lyrics themself that contribute to this euphoria vision.
As it wrote in “Masses of Water”: “It all begins right here with these masses of water; an engine of hopes and dismay; here we stand with our maps and our numbers; but no logic applies here; we’ll be safe and sound.”
“Guiding Stars” offers a lighthearted tenderness with a speck of hope, sailing onto the colorful sea. The flamboyant soundscape to this point is quite characteristic to Marble Raft’s sound. “Scouting the Shores of Longyear” marks a major shift of energy in the album.
It presents an immediate, derivative of vibe that feels fresh and at the same time intense, introducing a sense of movement and longing into the song with richer emotional context.
“Isle of the Tritons” turns to the tender side, featuring a sensuous guitar-centered texture that reminds you of the first rain of spring. It opens up the possibilities of cinematic aspects of Marble Raft’s music, which is something exciting to explore more.
“Northern to Southern Hemisphere” has a sense of magic and playfulness nicely tucked into the sonic. The percussion-infused bright, metal palette creates a very textural feel to the sonics. “Tierra del Fuego” looks out for a change in the darker and heavier, industrial-electronic elements that tangled with pop.
It’s a track that flies in the middle of everything yet different from anything. “Coast to Coast” concludes the album with a heavier, sunset-inspired reverb with an overwhelmingly emotional richness. It evokes a sense of nostalgia but in no way associates to specific memories. It’s a feeling that you can only feel but can’t see or touch, which makes the song stand out in Geography A.
