Kaneel: Here is a heart so you can remember how much I hate you
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Kaneel: Here is a heart so you can remember how much I hate you
2010, petite&jolie
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Rating: 8.7
Here is a heart so you can remember how much I hate you is an amazing gem of an electronic record. It doesn’t flash the listener with deep bass, pounding sound textures, or sugary-sweet pop hooks. This is a record for the pure examination of melody and textured percussion, an interplay so delicate that it feels like the electronic expansion of the classical sound palate.
Kaneel isn’t heavy-handed about his electronic influences. There is seldom a moment on this record that feels pulled from a video game, nor is there the shameless appeal to the club scene. Listen closely though and the nods are there, hidden beneath the beautiful melodies that Kaneel weaves to craft this headphone-loving record.
Kaneel selects his use of electronics like a painter chooses his brushes for a canvas. Abrasive sonic textures create shadow and depth against strong, gentle melodies that feel like themes to a classical score. This is a work that is as cinematic as it is intimate, brazen as it is reserved.
There are no words on Here is a heart so you can remember how much I hate you, but the album’s nearly 59-minutes suffers no trappings of a quiet, headphone-loving record. The record runs the emotional gamut. It leaves the listener on an emotional roller coaster, feeling familiar and comfortable in moments, and sad and broken in others, all done with quiet, skilled electronic choices.
Amazing skill has gone into the songwriting on this record, evoking all of the sense of theme and form that would be found across most genres of Western music, while at the same time breaking apart the stereotypes of what is electronic music.
