Shattered sanctuary

Song

Shattered sanctuary

Marco Cooper··6:14
  • Mid-90s Psychedelic Progressive Rock
  • Space Rock
  • Melancholic Breathy Male Vocals
  • Double-Tracked Delay Vocals
32 plays0

Lyrics

Liner notesArrangement: An eerie, shifting ambient synthesizer drone swells up over a stubborn D bass note. A ticking, processed TR-808 drum machine loop begins. Clean, flanged guitar arpeggios play minor 9th chords that physically slide a tritone away, creating a deeply seasick, alienated atmosphere.

Arrangement: An eerie, shifting ambient synthesizer drone swells up over a stubborn D bass note. A ticking, processed TR-808 drum machine loop begins. Clean, flanged guitar arpeggios play minor 9th chords that physically slide a tritone away, creating a deeply seasick, alienated atmosphere.

Vocals: Hushed, breathy, close to the mic, drifting in a sea of delay.

Liner notesVocals: Layered into a thick, melancholic harmony, soaring above the heavy guitars, purposefully leaning into dissonant 9ths.

Vocals: Layered into a thick, melancholic harmony, soaring above the heavy guitars, purposefully leaning into dissonant 9ths.

Liner notesArrangement: The heavy distortion instantly vanishes. We return to the hypnotic drum loop, but the flanged guitar plays entirely within a whole-tone scale, making the harmony feel like it's dissolving into water.

Arrangement: The heavy distortion instantly vanishes. We return to the hypnotic drum loop, but the flanged guitar plays entirely within a whole-tone scale, making the harmony feel like it's dissolving into water.

Vocals: Still breathy, but carrying more grit and forward momentum.

Vocals: Rising in power, harmonized in parallel fourths.

Vocals: Full-voiced, emotive, echoing endlessly into the void.