Holoscenic

This is another Rhys Fulber masterpiece! Only Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here or DSOTM touches me the same way! Sonically incredible!!

A truly wonderful collection of music.

What a surprise this album turned out to be. Usually when an established act delivers a dud like Conjure One's third album Exilarch- it's over. However, Holoscenic is familiar and fresh. The pads, arpeggios and beats are on-point, the vocals make sense, and intriguing instrumentals are inserted at exactly the right time. Unfortunately, the album starts where Exilarch ends and almost loses itself by the time Leigh Nash's stinker Under the Gun plays, but from that point on the music and lyrics are stunning, and exactly what you hoped would follow Conjure One's second album Extraordinary Ways. It's dark, and beautiful, and emotional, and perfect.

Wow, Conjure One always a step ahead of its time

I’ve tried getting into this album and I can’t. None of the songs stand out like I’d hoped. The songwriting and atmospheres aren’t nearly as rich as his first two albums and some of the third. I don’t know how much control Armada has over his work now, but this feels like a departure from what I’ve come to love of Conjure One.

Conjure One will forever be revered electronic/chillout act Delerium’s edgier, more stylish younger brother. With Bill Leeb, as Delerium, Rhys Fulber creates soundscapes that are organic, holy, reminiscent of a nostalgic past that perhaps never existed — and his solo project incorporates some of those ideas while marrying them with their polar opposites. Here the organic and synthetic will dance and the past is being romanticized from the vantage point of an apocalyptic future. Highlights include opener "Kill the Fear" with its teasing, moody piano keys intro that seems to tease a Delerium song — until the pulsing beat takes over to remind us we’re not in Delerium anymore, Toto; "Under the Gun" with its bubbling synths, soaring violins, and Leigh Nash vocals that are always perfectly at home on a Rhys Fulber production; the contemplative "All That You Leave Behind" that perfectly illustrates Conjure One’s strange intersection of the past and the future; and an epic collaboration with definitive Delerium vocalist Kristy Thirsk, “Ghost." Honorable mention to album closer “Oceanic" which sounds like Sigur Rós and Enya songs making love to the crashing beat of waves throwing themselves against a cold and desolate edifice.

I have been waiting for so long for this to come out. Thank you so much Conjure one.

Been a fan of Delerium for almost 20 years now and was a fan of Conjure One from the start. This album is a great addition to Rhys Fulber’s work. I’m not sure anything in it is really groundbreaking, but there are a number of great songs here. Kill the Fear, Under the Gun (Leigh Nash is awesome in this song), Ghost, and The Garden are particularly notable. The entire album has a very spacey feel with its rich reverb, synths, and piano, so to some extent it harkens back to Delerium’s earlier dark ambient days (which is awesome).

The latest album by Conjure One has a more varied, eclectic sound than on past efforts. While the familiar guitar-driven, chillout styled songs are still present (Under the Gun, Ghost), there are others that are fast-paced, more dance oriented (All That You Leave Behind, Still Holding On). While this may give Holoscenic a less consistent feel than previous albums, it also demonstrates the continual changing sound of Conjure One and the genre. Overall, a great album.

Highly anticipated album. It was meant to come out this past summer, but it was worth the wait. The music expressed beautiful art, it’s different and revitalizing, and feeds your soul. It’s perfect.