I tend to think of one-man black metal projects as raspy, lo-fi backwoods-shack stuff, but 鬼 has recorded the album with a cinematic clarity. Every sound is warm and full and crystalline. It gets loud, but it never gets ugly. The sounds get plenty of room to rise and fall; the album’s six songs sprawl across more than 40 minutes. And the whole time, it makes for grand and hopeful, deep-yearning music —music for staring out windows and thinking about the people you miss.
- www.stereogum.comPost-black metal is a somewhat ambiguous term, and while it can be used to describe Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur in a pinch, it doesn't do the music justice. Part reflective soundtrack and part sprawling black metal grandeur, it is one of the most singularly beautiful pieces of music you will hear.
- www.metalinjection.netMosaic I weaves delicate and expansive layers, conveying a genuine sense of pain and loss, while also capturing uplifting moments. It may be a relatively short album, but it’s rich in emotion, from which you emerge breathless and gasping. If black metal, and by extension post-black metal, is about evoking slabs of atmosphere, there are none more trve than...  more