Ethereal Scores of Our Fleeting Lives, a music review
On January 7th 2014, I purchased the track “Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears” by A Winged Victory for the Sullen an American ambient music duo. The sweeping calming genesis builds to a heart-wrenching soul squeezing crescendo; it manages to free a single tear from my burdened eyes every time. Without fail it stops me in my tracks as it resurfaces in my headphones while my phone plays shuffle with my life. It was a one-off-purchase, or so I thought. A couple of weeks ago, over ten years since my original purchase, Alexa decided to tempt me with her algorithmic peer pressure. She played the track “The Slow Descent Has Begun.” There was something familiar about this haunting darkness. Listening to the violins wail in search for some resolution only to leave me feeling desolate with a heaviness, a pit on my chest, was eerily familiar. Had I been here before? I asked her who was the artist. “A Winged Victory for the Sullen” she replied in her classic warm robotic tone. I normal