I’ve always found something so intoxicating and calming about down-tempo electronic music. The genre has such an easy way of finding its way into me when I’m at my lowest or highest, just helping me zone into that feeling of pure zen at such a zenith that it’s impossible to come down from. Thy Veils hits the nail on the head with razor sharp precision on “Upstream”. The transcendent art-pop masterpiece from this multi-faceted, instrumental Romania based artist is simply surreal in ever which way. It’s a hypnotic dreamland that you never want to get out of, a sheer bewildering and bewitching undulation of sonic exuberance that always seems like its about to hit the ceiling but never chooses to go that far.
As a result, you’re left cascading on a river that flows with a constant calmness, a cool breeze that overwhelms and leaves you floating at complete peace and tranquility.