I can't just say 'I don't like it' or 'it's boring', so I'll bore you with the details of why this is so boring. This is 'good', though, and that's my quandary. I just have no desire to listen to it. Had this record come out ten years ago, maybe I would care, but since this has been done to the point that it makes me sick I can't really fake a hard on for it. Noodly, go nowhere bass interplay has its place, but there has to be some sort of payoff.
Derivative experimentation is musical masturbation.
Dianogah's music just hangs in this pretty limbo, where modal scales are the holy grail. Yes, it's pretty, but I still don't want to listen to it because it makes me fall asleep. All of the tones are gray. You know the drill- lots of harmonics and tumbling melodies. The songs ebb and flow with majestic sweeps.