A few days ago, a friend drunkenly asked me on the phone about my thoughts regarding the fact that SOPOR's new soundtrack album "

THE DEAD HAVE COME

" is entirely instrumental. I can't remember how exactly he worded it, but essentially he wanted to know, whether I still liked it ... and my answer was:

"

Yes, I do. Very much so!

"

One of the reasons why I like the new album so much is because for the first in ... well,

ever

... I can actually

listen to

my own music

. -- I mean, yes, I obviously have listened to SOPOR's other albums in the past, but really only in that rather short period of time between the completion of a new record and its physical release.
 
It's not that I don't like my past albums -- well, maybe with the possible exception of literally everything that happened before "DEAD LOVERS' SARABANDE" that is (ha!) --, but ... you know ... they are not exactly easy to digest; and I could never listen to them "just for fun" or as mere background music. Even if the lyrics may seem silly or "neutral", they do have meaning ... and whenever I put on a SOPOR track, it always

demands

my undivided attention ...
 
... And then it's never just one track either, even when that was all I intially wanted to check. Once the track has ended, I often have to listen to the

entire

album all the way through (sometimes even the albums that came before and/or after) ... and that is always

exhausting

... because when I listen to it, I

remember

it ... and when I remember it,

I

relive

it

(in my head) ... and that is just not fun.

Technically, this is true for

all

the music that I own (including other people's music), because everything had/has its "time", and there are memories connected to all of it. Of course, this sort of thing is experienced by

every

human being with a brain and a heart. -- It's just ... things hit

differently

,

when it is your

own

art.

 
Oh, hey ... that rhymed.

So, yes ... I really do enjoy the new album

very much

. It's ...

comforting

.

 :)