It’s not often you find an artist whose oeuvre of work is so intuitive and atmospheric that it has the ability to ease you into a fantasy world of their own careful creation — however, this is something Hot Sugar (aka Nick Koenig) is particularly adept at doing.
That said, his production work is (counterintuitively) never just about sound. Instead, it’s an all-encompassing visceral experience that has a strange way of eliciting a nostalgic longing for situations you’ve actually never encountered. So it only feels right that Koenig’s latest dive into the deepest corners of his listeners’ psyches is The Melody of Dust, a 13-track album that serves as the gateway to a much larger, more complex world brought to life via virtual reality.
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Source: Papermag