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Q flavor released a new album a couple of weeks ago! It’s a follow-up to the two albums they released at the end of 2024, Liriope and Oxalis, which were both four-track drone ambient albums where every piece was named after the scientific name of a plant. This new album, Anubias, is also that too! Which means there isn’t a whole lot to say about this release, I suppose. Same as last time, it’s more of Q flavor’s glassy sound design as you’d hear in their more ambient tracks in GNOSIA but applied to longer and more ambient compositions. It’s not really any more compositionally interesting than their more active works, no sneaky chord movements or other stuff along those lines that I love to hear slipped into music like this; it’s all about the synth textures, so if “Q flavor ambient synth textures stretched over 70 minutes of music” sounds appealing to you, then I’d give this album a recommendation.
Oh, I guess that 70 minutes thing is something I could comment on, yeah? Yeah this album is 70 minutes long, because there’s one track that’s 24 minutes and one that’s 32 minutes, which are both longer than any of the tracks on Liriope and Oxalis. I wouldn’t necessarily say they justify their even longer lengths, but it’s fine, that just means there’s more material to zone out to.
Recommended track:
- “Anubias” is the 32-minute track and look, I know, but hear me out on this one, the textural progression across this piece is quite nice after it really starts developing at about the 14-minute mark or so; the buzzing sound that comes in around 18 minutes is probably my favorite noise
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