Earth

Earth – Earth 2.23 Special Lower Frequency Mix (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:49 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Experimental Rock, Drone
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sub Pop Records

The widespread impact of Earth 2 suggests that others have indeed been leaning in, listening to these minutiae and making something new of them. A masterpiece without many genre precedents, Earth 2 surely helped send doom metal down its more modern drone, ambient, and avant-garde avenues. Those descendants are obvious. Perhaps more surprising and gratifying are the ways it has influenced electronic music, modern composition, and even hip-hop by realigning our senses of tempo, time, and texture. Earth 2 engendered a rearrangement of expectations, regardless of preferred form.

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