Day 85: Selenium Forest by Plini // 8

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Image result for plini other thingsGENRE: progressive, metal
Plini is another artist that has flown under my radar for awhile, but not today. His touch and approach to creating music aligns so well with what envision to be my choice and taste in music. Selenium Forest is a clinic on how to write and perform articulate, harmonic, emotional music with masks of metal and instrumental styles.

The introduction is particularly mesmerizing, but the song only picks up from there. Odd time signatures are the norm here, but nothing too mind-bending on the level of Meshuggah. You almost never really notice anymore considering how persistent it is throughout the song, which is the sign of an artist that composes through the music, instead of filling some kind of imaginary quota for progressive rock.

Aside from the technical prowess, the structure of the song kind of all blends, and seems more like one big solo. That's not in of itself a bad thing, but it's hard to pick out particularly memorable parts of the song as a result. Nonetheless, it is adequate.

Rating: 8/10


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