To continue the trend we started this iteration of Audiosurf Song Of The Week, we present to you a challenge. In the same vein as Cult Of Luna, Isis makes dynamic audio landscapes that translates beautifully in Audiosurf. If you have the patients. And really enjoy the music.
That is certainly true for everything, but this kind of music will either bore you, or transcend you. And when you hit that slope to the song’s crescendo in Audiosurf, Isis‘ “Garden Of Light” can transcend the most skeptic of listener. The follow-up to 2004’s commercial and critical breakthrough album, Panopticon, 2006’s In The Absence Of Truth sees the band take an even more melodic and softer approach than ever before.
“Garden Of Light” is the pinnacle crescendo of the album, that leaves the listener in a state of melancholic happiness. Themes of hope are introduced, both lyrically and musically, that ends the album on a perfect note. Front man Aaron Turner also decides to introduce a new theme for an Isis album, something that both prevails its obstacles and succumbs to its own infancy.
Themes only grow stronger for each Isis release, and the music along with it. Panopticon was the perfected version of the “control tower” theme, being in its third iteration. With the introduction of a new musical and lyrical theme on In The Absence Of Truth, the album actually suffers because of it. Yet, how unestablished the sound may be, it may be the perfect continuation of the band’s artistic progression.
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