Gather round and hear the tales so telling they need no words to reach you. It’s this week’s best new instrumental tracks, featuring Dittocrush with Daniel Young and Mahogany Frog, after the jump.
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It’s easy to throw around a word like “cinematic” when describing a song like “Coral Rose” by Dittocrush (featuring Daniel Young). It’s sparse, it’s ambient, it moves through you like a third act revelation, that moment of character clarity and peace that directly proceeds the final resolution. A soundtrack for not only the wide open spaces of the world but also the quiet corners of the mind.
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Putting music to film has been a thing since practically the very beginning of film, long before John Williams gave us heartstring tugging orchestral swells and Trent Reznor unleashed ominous metal drones and tinkling pianos into our ears. Taking it all the way back to the origins, Mahogany Frog has released “A Decision Of The Flower” the first single from the score they have composed for the 1926 German silent film version of the story of Faust. Are we bummed they’re calling the album simply Faust and not something like The Faust and The Frogious, yeah a little, but that’s the only negative we have to say about this track. Starting with a meditative, repetitive warbling electric piano piece that shifts into electric woodwinds and breakbeats, and all the while a dark foreshadowing undercurrent moves beneath.
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