Aokigahara Woods is my follow up to Antelope. Like Antelope it contains a prominent bass and clean guitars. Aokigahara contains very little percussion and revolves mostly around guitar/bass interplay with some keyboard, violin, piano, and noise for good measure. Songs here are repetitive, simple, quiet, loud, noisy, melody centred, and long.
Aokigahara strips away all the punk influences I used to have along with most of the folk influences of the prior album. Aokigahara has an 'art rock' influence, though I normally despise the term it seems to be the only thing that comes to mind. The album contains alot of improvised melodies making it more unique, but less focussed then my prior work.
Aokigahara isn't as good as Antelope in my opinion but it represents things that I look for in music...Repetition, melody, simplicity, instrumental focus, and an original sound.
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