

Excuse me for how pretentious this will inevitably sound, but I wasn't entertained by the stark textures nor the melancholic themes instead, I was in the midst of an experience, the type of life-changing encounter with an album that you can't shake no matter how long you go without listening to it.

But most of all, Async was that album the one you'd never forget: the fabled classic. Last April, Ryuichi Sakamoto put out what was a career-defining record with Async it was a record that garnered praise for its blunt perspective on the concept of mortality and its creator struggling with the notion of his own potential demise. Review Summary: Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well.
