Breaths – Though life has turned out nothing like I imagined, it is far better than I could have dreamt Review

As one finds the right moment and mood, to sit and relax with headphones (an enjoyable and experiencing way to listen to this magical fruit of art), and let the music take the listener on a journey through Jason‘s personal experiences, both light and dark. This will leave the listener feeling that though life has turned out nothing as he imagined.

As soon as the listener presses the play button, (I think that) Though life has turned out nothing like I imagined, it is far better than I could have dreamt is a continuation to Breaths‘ debut release Lined In Silver (an expanding dream). This brings the listener to the closing of Lined In Silver, and its closing track In Repose where the listener comes to (approx.) the last one minute of the piece, which closes with an ethereal atmosphere ending.

Continuing with the dream with the opening track, The Elders, which welcomes the listener to short, aggressive riffs and shrieks (feeling like waking up from a nightmare), which unfolds in a slow ethereal atmosphere and vocals and interchanging with an aggressive atmosphere.

Following suit with the remaining five songs, where the music draws the listener into this dreamlike atmosphere and further expands on the sound established on the debut, Lined in Silver, while remaining fresh and exciting.

Simultaneously, the album creates a relaxing and smooth release that welcomes a transfixing atmosphere. Jason has made his music fresh, exciting, appealing, epic, awe-inspiring opus of such magnitude, defining the genre/style classification tradition of creating something unique by combining various elements and enveloping the pieces together with perfection (well-balanced, each element doesn’t overpower each other).

This includes the Avast textural soundscape of post-metal, the aggressive black metal attitude, the slow and sorrowful of doom metal, progressive metal, post-hardcore punk, and post-rock. The tint of ambient, dark, brooding, melancholy, ethereal soundscape, heavy and soft moments (dreamy and mellow textures), slight head-nodding moments, droning, ethereal vocals of shoegaze/black metal shrieks, use of volume and tempo changes.

Thus creating this pianissimo to fortissimo (dreamlike) atmosphere journey, that’s topped with six equally solid, strongly composed songs, with lyrics of sorrowful and meaningful meaning, top-notch production in sound, with overwhelming and awe-inspiring devilmanship. It is also a release that’s genuinely transfixing and entertaining (surprising) from the moment of play and draws the listener deep within the music – not to be missed.

The album comes to an end with the last song, The Wayward. We want to give a shoutout to Breaths for letting us review his album, Though life has turned out nothing like I imagined, it is far better than I could have dreamt. Now, we’re going to wrap it up by talking about the final three sins and concluding the review.