It's easy to get lost in the swirling, sparkling synthesizers of Baths' song Maximalist off his newly released LP Cerulean. The sound swells and fades rhythmically as if enticing you in and simultaneously pushing you away. As soon as you begin to feel slightly comfortable in this movement, the sound cuts out to spoken samples that sound as if they've been ripped from a sub-par recording of some anonymous motivational speaker: "what's love telling you to do right now?", "it takes a lot of courage to radiate your essence." It abruptly pulls you out of the song with explicit subliminal messaging. You stop to ponder these ideas, but then the swell of the synths pull you back into the mind mending spin where a search for control is fruitless.
Don't listen to this if you're not prepared to get a little dizzy, especially if you're lying down with your eyes closed. But maybe that's exactly how you're supposed to listen to it.
Youtube: Baths - Maximalist
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