Like a trip into another dimension, a fever dream that feels inescapable, a portal into a darkness fluttered with neon, Marottes embarks the listener onto a fully fledged sonic journey on ‘Languish’. The surrealist experimental electronic escapade is an eclectic mirage of sounds that so seamlessly roll and flow into one another with an overarching darkness and mystique shrouding them. It’s a dreamscape that has a nightmarish feel to it at once. Dystopic and futuristic, the flourishing hypnotism of its furious and pulsating beats warp onto you with breakneck speed till you’re left entirely floored.
As you enter the record through the darkness that is ‘See Mee’, you find yourself in a rave like environment, beguiled by the darkness yet aware of the fluttering neon that glimmers around you. ‘Empath’ suddenly drags you away, into a much more hallowing and dreary soundscape that’s heavy, ominous, and foreboding. There’s a real gravitas to the piece, accentuated by over the top synths that give it a heavenly exterior. ‘Flip Cups’ feels like a moment of break in the record, an almost indecipherable and rather haywire piece with heavily shrouded vocals and limited production around it. You’re then brought back to the more palatable and infectious rhythm that Marottes can easily create through the enchanting and bewitching beats of ‘Hanging’. The song awakens you, hits you at your core and stays there while letting you glide to its energy. It’s on the final track, ‘Languishing’, that you really achieve a clear finality and catharsis to the record at whole. An opulent cinematic grandeur that just bellows imagination.
A truly surrealist fantasy, an electronic escape of epic proportions, and a dream you don’t want to wake from, ‘Languish’ is best experienced in the throes of darkness with a need to revel in the moment.