Album Review
by Sutter Greaves
March 26th, 2025
"Self-released on Bandcamp January 13, 2025, KJ Valium fashions terror into organized chaos. A reprise of cinema and soundscapes woven into refined passages of dark vistas and refined contorted, looped arrangements emanating natural harmony from the forbidden psyche.
Dark sine bursts coruscate orchestration, with vividly quavering synth of obliterated nostalgic days, functioning as the unexpected but well-working deep, rumble of static hissing drone throughout.
Overtime the patient, dark-ambient settings slowly oscillate crystalline synths hovering an endemic atmosphere. Textures churn and vacillate into an ever-evolving sequence of its own design, low-end currents undulate effectuating trains bustling through various dimensions in sound. In the distance, after this is wholly repeated, synergy oscillates the surrounding environment, becoming enveloped deeper into the breath of dark-ambient synths.
Noise-filled ambiance fathoms the apexes and cusps of hallucinatory music. Whalefall searches and creates atmospheric funnels and gateways to moss-grown space-oriented tunes, slowly pulsating through melancholy, in all its dark-ambient glory! I appreciated every second, and sound, that was offered; truly ceremonial for dark-ambient fans."