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States of Containment

Six states. None of them named for what they really are. Music that knows something you don’t — and isn’t telling.
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6 songs
5:46Song Image
Dissolution
v4.5-all
Avant-garde art rock, 64 BPM, B Minor, Fragile tenor dissolving into extended falsetto decay, Deep melodic bass as slow gravitational pull, Sparse IDM percussion with long silences, Distorted cello as the only melodic constant, Ondes Martenot fading in and out like a signal losing contact, Heavy tape-saturation and wow-flutter artifacts, Cavernous reverb, near-empty space, Atmospheric grief without resolution
4:52Song Image
Dread
v4.5-all
Avant-garde art rock, 78 BPM, C# Minor, Tense tenor at the edge of breaking, Low melodic bass with ominous sub-frequency undertow, Jittery IDM percussion accelerating and collapsing, Distorted cello scraped rather than bowed, Ondes Martenot as a dissonant warning signal, Granular textures with industrial grain, Claustrophobic space, close and pressurized, Existential menace
7:22Song Image
Avant-garde art rock, 69 BPM, E♭ Minor, Soaring fragile tenor reaching beyond its range, Melodic bass as a slow ascending motif, IDM percussion ritualistic and tribal, Distorted cello in dialogue with a second ghost voice, Ondes Martenot as a celestial melodic arc, Granular shimmer and cathedral reverb, Vast, open, vertical space, Spiritual existentialism
6:05Song Image
Collapse
v4.5-all
Avant-garde art rock, 58 BPM, D Minor, Fractured tenor, phrases incomplete and interrupted, Deep bass holding ground while everything above it disintegrates, Deconstructed IDM percussion, rhythmic logic breaking apart, Cello distortion at maximum — almost unrecognizable as strings, Ondes Martenot buried deep in the mix as a ghost memory, Tape-saturation pushed to near-destruction, Suffocating cinematic space, Pure entropy
7:29Song Image
Vigil
v4.5-all
Avant-garde art rock, 72 BPM, A Minor, Hushed tenor close-mic'd, breath audible, Melodic bass as heartbeat, Minimal IDM percussion — more absence than presence, Distorted cello as a sustained drone beneath the voice, Ondes Martenot as a distant melodic whisper, Dry intimate recording against a vast implied space, Tape hiss as texture, Existential stillness, the calm before
5:02Song Image
Avant-garde art rock, 84 BPM, F Minor, Strained tenor at breaking point, vibrato under pressure, Driving melodic bass with aggressive low-end push, IDM percussion sharp and relentless, Distorted cello as a second voice in conflict with the tenor, Ondes Martenot cutting through the mix like a siren, Granular distortion and tape-compression at war, Dense, pressurized cinematic space, Existential fury, held on a leash