Joshua Marquez shares his thought provoking LP, "Violent Yellow"
Exploring nearly the entire spectrum of music, we’re incredibly impressed with the latest record coming from Joshua Marquez, titled Violent Yellow. Please keep reading for our full and in-depth look at the album, in addition to a background on the artist.
Currently based out of Philadelphia, Joshua Maruqez is a Filipinx-American composer, guitarist, and sound artist whose music looks within “the liminal space between tone/noise and digital/analog as a means to investigate the complexities and duality of Asian American identity”. On his thought provoking new record Violent Yellow, we couldn’t help but instantly feel enlightened after listening to it. At this point, we highly recommend you give it a listen as soon as possible.
Calming in nature, but exuding massive amounts of emotion and passion, Joshua Marquez has expertly hand crafted a complete and precise work that breaks the mold of our typical submission. To begin, we are suggesting all who listen go in with an open mind, as well as the best pair of headphones you own in order to not miss the seemingly endless amounts of subtleties presented within the record. The amount you could miss is staggering, so please take that into consideration.
What felt like a film score from start to finish could also open itself up to ambient listening too. It’s already been reviewed and commented on as “cutting-edge” and “haunting”, and while we can see that, there’s also so many other equal describers that popped up. Every song has taken on a life of its own and it truly challenges the listener to get into a headspace and expand their mind as they listen. The pure instrumentals allow for the listener to forget everything going on in their lives and give way to the music happening in their ears.
There isn’t a standalone track that came off to us as a favorite, rather this felt more like a cohesive listen that needed to be listened to from start to finish to really get the point across. As mentioned, every song projects different feelings, but it’s all very much cut from the same talented composer. Joshua Marquez has sincerely expanded our taste in listening and presented a masterful work that we know we’ll be coming back to for years to come.
It should probably go without saying, but we implore you to dive into this record head first as soon as possible. We’ve done the easy part and included the important links below in order to listen and follow along for more.
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