Divine Weight

by Alex Zhang Hungtai

Divine Weight cover art

Following the dissolution of his beloved lo-fi rock project Dirty Beaches, the Taiwanese-Canadian artist creates a stunningly bleak, entirely wordless ambient album. The record was constructed by heavily processing and pitch-shifting hours of his own saxophone improvisations until they resemble terrifyingly dark, cinematic synthesizer drones. It acts as a remarkably profound, deeply unsettling musical reinvention.

Genres

  • Drone
  • Ambient

Tracklist

  1. Pierrot
  2. Matrimony
  3. This Is Not My Country
  4. Yaumatei
  5. Divine Weight