this is the first part of an apparent three cd set to be released slowly over the next several months.

there does seem to be a movement towards a more sporadic, atmospheric sound over the last few records, and it's sort of flipped over, here. there's an increased use of ambience & noise, in addition to the more sombre approach, which is making the first part of this a difficult and rather inaccessible listen.

i'm accustomed to listening to very abstract sound, so when i suggest that i'm going to need a few listens to process this, it really reflects on what i'm listening to.

but, i'm not convinced that this is going to click, in the end. my initial impression is that the record ends up so glacial that it loses it's interest, and that the increased diversity in the soundscaping doesn't salvage it. but, it's hard to tell if that's going to assert itself, or if i'm going to be able to make sense of it.

lyrically, lott is also.....i knew he was a christian from the start, and that was in some ways an asset in his earliest material, but the write-up for the record is a little facile to say the least. we'll see if he gets under my skin, or not.

but, that's my first impression - this is about as abstract as pop music gets; it may have exited the realm of pop music entirely, in truth, and entered a realm of pure sound design, with what is really only surface comparisons to pop structures. while this is not a criticism on it's face, and the record may reveal something i did not hear on first listen in the long run, it doesn't sound to me like they pulled this off.

https://sonlux.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-i