‘Transmission Seven’ by LateNightBeatFeast is a cinematic and adventurous record that explores new and innovative ideas. Grounded in the sci-fi sound, the record is founded on layers of analog synths, samples, and field recordings and, as a whole, feels like an audio film with each track representing a scene. The title track “Transmission Seven” opens the album with a wave of unsettling yet beautiful textural sound. An abstract soundscape builds in momentum at a slow pace while buried low-fi vocal elements and percussion create an enigmatic atmosphere. “Moondust” is one of the lead singles off the project, its a foray into a lighter, airy soundscape. Synth pads swell and dance with samples of undefined, weightless vocal sounds. “Project Nucleus” is more on the heavy and mechanical side of the electronic spectrum, building with glitched out percussion and dragging at the seams of musical structure. “Quiescent”, on the other hand, is the complete opposite, a slow and spacious track on the more ambient, minimal end of the spectrum.
Halfway through the project, “Determinism” and “Decision” bookend the center of the project. “Determinism” is cold and calculated with an industrial like tone that pounds with electronic percussion. This track feels the most rigid and mathematical, grounded in its synth production. “Decision” is equally as menacing in a different way. A weightless and almost anxious sense of balance hovers with synth pads as the track sits with a latent breath before abruptly pulling at the seams. “Interdeterminism”, however, is a new experience altogether. Looping elements and abstract melodies float by like shuffled puzzle pieces. Each re-listen re-configures the potential of the track. “Euclidean Space” builds from this, a more spacious and reserved track. The sound ebbs and flows with the use of silence as much as sound itself. After its climax, “Null Infinity” shifts towards a bass-heavy track with ambient, cosmic static. The tracks read like wormholes, an exploration into the consequences of every “decision” that is made in the journey of the record.
Finale tracks “Luminiferous Aether”, “Apparent Horizon”, and “Gravitational Abyss” represent the cinematic apex of the entire project. Floating with an almost sacred tone, “Luminiferous Aether” weaves ambient melodies with high-end synth stabs. “Apparent Horizon” counteracts and sharpens the focus with more concrete beats and a tighter groove. The final track, “Gravitational Abyss”, is a thick and energetic conclusion to the record, harkening back to the grander idea of ‘Transmission Seven’. With a concept so abstract and a world built around it, the full project becomes a standout for its storytelling and audio quality. Accompanying the full record, there are three visually connected music videos, dropping in sync with each other over the week of its official release.
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