Baths - 'Obsidian'

By Zachary Issenberg

BathsObsidianAnticon

After a rough year stuck in bed, Will Wiesenfeld (aka Anticon pop star Baths) releases his third album with a sharp turn towards the morbid.Cycled samples of his falsetto provide a heavenly chorus that juxtaposes the often dark nature of the lyricism. Loss of faith in self and the world, dissolution of relationships, suicide, absolution of the self into self-servicing; the album is about human nature in the real world and gives us the comfort that we’re not the only ones feeling down about it.The depravity marked in the lyrics of “Miasma Sky” and “Worsening” are all the more realized by how light and refined the music surrounding it is.It’s an album that brings to the part of our consciousness we loathe and hide away, and it does so entirely without cynical reproach.[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/81970529" params="color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]