I FORGET MYSELF Dazzles With ‘A Countenance in Involution’ Album
With A Countenance in Involution, Hong Kong-based, alternative rock artist I FORGET MYSELF has delivered their most personal and mature work yet. This 11-track release is the artist's eighth full-length release in five years, but it feels like a significant reinvention of sorts, informed by an entire lifetime of unconventional experiences and emotional weight. A Countenance in Involution grips us with its careful, often haunting, variations of aural texture. It surely navigates through complex sounds about identity and memory, ultimately making something new in a personal journey of transformation.
The raw melodic urgency of I FORGET MYSELF is present throughout the soundscape of A Countenance in Involution, beginning with its haunting overture and layered final track. In this effort, the return of drummer Kyle Reece Williams impacts the increased rhythmic complexity in a manner integral to the evolving sound of the artist's journey. This, combined with the elegant mixing and mastering of Clint Watts, presents polished sounds with their emotional grit intact.
Across the album, each song unfolds like confessional journal entries composed of vulnerability and experimentation, held together by an intimacy that transports listeners to an alternate reality. Whereas each song may have particular moments of poetic, yet profound, specificity lyrically, it is often humanness and experience that might emerge more broadly but most significantly across the album. There are alternative rock foundations to be sure, but with a great deal of ambient, experimental, and post-rock moments combined with vivid and visceral theme and imagery, I FORGET MYSELF has made an important record.
I FORGET MYSELF has proven once again that he's a singular voice in independent music. Based in Hong Kong and shaped by life on multiple continents, his sonic identity is still borderless and still deeply personal. A Countenance in Involution is not just an album, but a space and an experience that leads us deep into the roots of creative metamorphosis.
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