Filteria - Daze Of Our Lives

[abasio]

This album is the first of Filteria that I really thought was great.

I liked the previous two but never really felt them, inside, but this is tremendous.

Float Away & Disappear is a beautiful beautiful track

[Starkraver]

Going all out !! Filteria : sky input --> Daze of our lives --> lost in the wild.

 

Sky input left me with sore hands with all fist pumping. Power! Power! Power!!

 

Then It was time for Daze of our lives it instantly bought a smile on my face, fist pumping gave way to wavy happyish more involved kinda dance moves. This one is so emotional

 

Filteraces, the BIG BLUE (I love you!), wormhole what a blast!! And I'm not even half through the album.

One hella of a night!

 

 

Oh f*#k here comes Eyeless Observatory!

[Kitrinos]

I can't get the hype about Filteria; imo he's the most overrated goa artist. Anyway, in this album I like The Big Blue, Float Away & Disappear and Earthrise. The rest bore me :/

[Filteria]

Daze of Our Lives (extended) is just rereleased with 2 additional tracks. Check out here: https://filteria.ban...-lives-extended

thank you for the support and all the reviews

 

Best regards / Jannis

[astralprojection]

Best filteria album and set a new standard for neo goa and goa as a whole 

Best tracks: filtertraces, wormhole, big blue 

And don't sleep on the Astral Projection remix of filtertraces. 

 

[acid being]

Background: I have never been a Filteria fan. When he was a new artist I assumed it was kind of new school stuff but when I read all the amazing revews here from Goa fans and the comparisons to Pleiadians, I tried a couple times to listen to Sky Input, but I had a similar reaction to most of the other handful of negative reviewers: there are good Goa sounds and melodies but once the tracks get going it becomes a sort of wall of monoculture, like, I love chocolate cake but I don't want every space in my fridge and cupboards squashed full of only chocolate cake. (I should also mention incidentally that IFO is not one of my most favorite albums, though I do like it and listen to it quite a lot. I feel it has more color than Sky Input).

I read that Daze of Our Lives is considered by many an improvement on the earlier albums so I have given it my first couple of listens. I am trying to let go of my biases, but that is hard to do, but I do need to say that the best bits of this album are really good and there are certainly moments where there is a really interesitng and unique sound.

For me the really good bits are when he goes more ambient / downtempo and lets the music breathe a little. My favorites are the first and last tracks. I think he should try a whole album of downtempo. The other stuff, I like it OK, and I will give it more listens. It's technically good; the melodies are good; the effects are really good, but I honestly have to say that for most of it I don't get that really magic feeling that I get with older Goa or something like RA. It is hard to put my finger on it and it may be down to preconceptions. It might be something to do with the mastering or just Filteria sliding back into his tendencies for a relentlessly constant level of energy in a track. There are colorful melodies and organic effects yet many of the tracks for me feel a little on the flatter, less colorful, more homogenous kind of side in terms of their overall impression. This is just my subjective personal preference.

I should mention this album does have quite a few Posfordlike elements that are done quite well, the warping chords and bright arpeggios. He has also nailed the weird, stuttery vocal effects although I do wonder if these were verging on being over-used here, though that's a minor quibble. This is no Hallucinogen 3 for me though, unfortunately. I award that title to Artha's incredible Influencing Dreams.

I give tracks 1 and 9 9/10. The rest, I would have to give it more listens to really rank it fairly but my current feeling is if I was just rating the technical achievement it would probably be about 7 or 8/10 but in terms of my own enjoyment, 6/10.

So for the whole album: 7/10.

Edited 8 hours ago by acid being
Wrong track number