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01. Stefan Vincent - Eyes Unclouded
02. Stefan Vincent - Another Skin To Wear
03. Stefan Vincent - Poise
04. Stefan Vincent - Arpeggino
05. Stefan Vincent - You Know This Isn't Going To End Well
06. Stefan Vincent - Yonghegong Lama Temple Exit F
07. Stefan Vincent - Anhedonic
08. Stefan Vincent - 8AM On The Train To Work You Ask Me To Send You Something That Makes Me Happy (For Maarten)
ARTIST
TITLE
Post Melancholy
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MUSAR 019LP MUSAR 019LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/1/2024

For Dutch artist Stefan Vincent, the feeling of melancholy also offers the opportunity for beauty to be found. "Decay and loneliness can serve a purpose. Depression can teach you things. To feel deep sadness also means the ability to feel profound emotions." he says. With this in mind, his debut album on MUSAR Recordings, Post Melancholy, unpacks the twists and turns of grappling with this emotion, drawing from breaks, electro and IDM to make his most intricate work to date, after previous releases on Token, Dynamic Reflection, Symbolism, and Non-Series. Throughout Post Melancholy Vincent traces the wave of melancholy and how it moves through the body, which allows for lighter moments alongside darker moods. Perhaps the lightest track on the album is its acidic-breaks opener, "Eyes Unclouded", with its soaring acid lines and dazzling synths, which acts as a false pretense for the rest of the album. Tracks like "Poise", "Arpeggino" and the meditative "Yonghegong Lama Temple Exit F" also break up the intensity. However, nestled between the more-pacey, bass-weighted tracks on the album, these lighter openings still feel like tear-jerkers. The more common associations of melancholy show up on tracks like "Another Skin To Wear" and "You Know This Isn't Going To End Well", which all create a more ominous feel via IDM and the polyrhythmic structures of drum'n'bass. Particularly on "Another Skin To Wear", which borrows its name from a Radiohead lyric, the track's swooping motion feels realistic to melancholy's chaotic and often unpredictable path. But, like all great storytellers, Vincent leaves the most poignant moment of the album for last with the rolling "8AM on the Train... (For Maarten)" devoted to his dear friend, Maarten, who sadly passed away at the young age of 36.