Suumhow - Years Failed Successfully (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Mysterious Belgian experimental electronics duo Suumhow returns with their third album, Years Failed Successfully. The album opens with the duo's signature melodicism and broken glitched-up beatwork. It then ebbs into more sinewy territory with swaths of pulsing static and overarching widescreen vivid ambiance. It's new ground for the duo that displays some rather aurally fitting symbolism to the state of the pandemic era, with ambient music on the edge of hysterical hope and arrested emotions.