Too intense to enjoy fireside with a glass of scotch. But who seeks out contemporary classical for relaxation these days? Unless you’re exploring the gullies and gulches of neu-ASMR minimalism, the high modern impulse is still to pack as much anxiety and terror into your composition as possible. In 3:01 Austin Wulliman does just that with a phalanx of violins stripbombing your current location. There’s a fiddle twang that resonates in some of the passages, though, that distinguishes our highlighted track “BLINK” from the usual Stravinsky-dressed mixed salads. Off The News From Utopia.

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