Album Review/ Experimental : Neva Insidious’ ‘Clarity in Misery’

Neva Insidious is the perfect combination of absurdity, alt rock, and groove. The artist creates an atmosphere of exploration, laying out elaborate sonic outfits around the listener. When you listen to their music, you experience edge, experiment, and an exemplary vision. It’s like watching an action packed, horror movie, with a sci-fi dimension and histrionics. Their debut release is ‘Clarity in Misery’, a collection that carries the observer’s mind as it juxtaposes a sense of clarity with the warping whirlpool that misery is known for. You’ll see such novel ideas pooling into vivid scenes. All these frames strive to achieve a nuanced dimension of the theme and it all makes quite an interesting experience.

Overarchingly, the artist aims to alienate the listener constantly. Which in turn compels them to immerse more, to explore more, in order to understand more. The sonic design is mercurial and temperamental, creating such vast gaps across the soundscape. That sense of structure and predictable rhythms is deliberately absent. And it keeps you guessing, looking outwards for answers. You’ll see this play out especially in tracks like ‘Explore 4’ and ‘Open Your Mind’. The space that is created is quite vast and expansive, and within that, there is a labyrinth of sonic detail. 

There are industrial accents scattered across some of the soundscapes. It darkens the mood, creates an asymmetry in the way you perceive and experience it. Like in ‘Avalanche’ and ‘Facedown’. Both tracks embody the destructive spirit of the themes, the calamitous feeling and its misery seeps in. The clarity is not directly depicted in the composition for interpretation. But it is the response that these tracks elicit in the listener. It’s quite an interactive way of realizing a theme. 

In ‘My home planet is so far away’ and ‘What’, we see a more coherent structure, luminous instrumentals and a more vivid rock atmosphere. The guitar work/synths proclaims a saga of sorts, a dramatic flow of power, intention, energy, and meaning. While the former is more synth intensive with bubbling patterns, the latter has a more demanding presence. Listen Now! 

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