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Controlling Crowds, Part IV
Rock · 2009 · 11 tracks · 48m

Controlling Crowds, Part IV

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A cinematic fusion of trip-hop rhythms and progressive rock scale. Dark, urban, and deeply atmospheric music for navigating modern isolation.

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It's like the soundtrack to a movie about a city that never sleeps and never smiles.

A cold, mechanical tension that slowly dissolves into a haunting, human vulnerability.

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Medium Energy-1.4σ

It runs notably cooler and more held-back than this artist's baseline.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks · 48m
01
Pills
4:13
02
Lines
6:04
03
The Empty Bottle
7:03
04
Remove
4:06
05
Come on Get High
4:41
06
Thought Conditioning
3:39
07
The Feeling of Losing Everything
4:48
08
Blood in Numbers
3:05
09
To the End
3:55
10
Pictures
3:55
11
Lunar Bender
3:24
Moments Worth Waiting For
The mechanical, hypnotic pulse of 'Pills' setting a clinical and detached tone for the record.
The way 'The Empty Bottle' swells from a sparse piano melody into a towering, orchestral wall of sound.
The haunting, stripped-back vulnerability of the closing track 'Lunar Bender' as it fades into static.
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