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- walking in the mountains, you see flags waving in the distance...

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    - you take in the majesty of the rocky landscape around you.
    

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    - the difficulty of the hike makes your heart pound.

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    - it's a very windy day!
    the roaring wind makes it hard to keep your feet on the ground.

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- eventually, you find yourself on a meadow.
the wind dies down.
you hear cicadas in the scorching sun.

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    - as a light breeze passes by, you spot a fox spirit playing the flute somewhere in the distance.
    one blink later, and she's gone.

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- you walk up to the spot where you saw the fox spirit, and decide to set up camp there.

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- soon enough, the sun fades, and you can see the stars.
you start looking for constellations.

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    - there's the Dog, the Fox, the Cat,

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    - but your mind is slowly drifting.
    your consciousness fading away, as you begin to sleep, and dream...

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- _Flacks_, and to be honest, the entirety of _aBliss_, is probably my most beautiful discovery this month.

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    - apart from the one little acid oddity of _Monolite_, which almost doesn't fit the rest of the album.
    I like to imagine it as the dream you have in the middle of that meadow.

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        - visions you can't comprehend, a feverish chase, creatures you've never seen.
        an unsettling concoction of colorful weird.

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        - I guess the Sandman didn't bless you that night.

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    - that one little moment of serenity, at 2:18, where the fox spirit plays the flute, is one of the most beautiful synaesthetic visions I've had while listening to music.

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        - it reminds me of [this little animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezYstnhZZPw) I saw on YouTube a while back.
        beautiful stuff.

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    - [buy the album here](https://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/album/abliss)

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- thank you, Benn.