Let’s spill some ink over the “inky blackness” of our “memories of other worlds.” Dreams of a Painted World, released by the solo project Void at the beginning of 2021, is a palette of different styles brushed and smeared together. Black metal, post-rock, ambient, and funeral doom sometimes coalesce and other times diverge but never feel haphazardly enjoined. I have spent more time with this record than many others over the last three weeks, always a bit unsure of what keeps drawing me back for another listen. Yet Dreams of a Painted World is not a befuddling modernist masterpiece that … Continue reading Incommensurate Elements: Void’s Dreams of a Painted World