Hectic Zeniths – Hectic Zeniths

Releasedate: 10-01-2012; Label: Bandcamp
By: Lara Cappelli

Hectic Zeniths is the name of the project of American producer and multi-instrumentalist Adam Morgan Prince. Their first album took almost three years to get finalized and is now out as a self-titled release.

Generally speaking, electronic music often runs the risk to get bogged down in repetition, in a certain rhythm that might get the listener almost spell bounded. With Hectic Zeniths, the kind of electronic proposed totally tips over this definition, coming forward with a remarkable variety. The songs do stand on electronic vibes, but are well based on different elements, finding their way into distant chants, veritable spoken parts at times. Indeed, the album is so rich in variety that, at some point, you might loose sight of the point of the whole, since the contrast between certain songs is definitely evident. The piano gets you back at it all though, functioning as leitmotiv of the whole album. The album is not a long one; there’s no song that crosses the three-minute border. In this way all of them gain their own visibility, showing all they’re supposed to carry in a deep mix of elements.

If this album was a speech, than it would be a well articulated one. There’s definitely one only topic the band deals with, which is filtered by an overall melancholic feeling but leaves the further interpretation of it to the listener. Right that topic though is well spoken, with a great use of vocabulary and, if you want to catch them, even some assonances. A speech that keeps the attention high, that deserves a second listen to get its full meaning but, after that, won’t let you in disagreement. And, after all, isn’t this what it’s all about?

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