HOME : Odyssey

---HOME : Odyssey---

01. Intro 00:00
02. Native 03:09
03. Decay 07:11
04. Oort Cloud 11:22
05. Tides 14:48
06. Nights (I Wish I Could Be There) 18:45
07. Odyssey 21:51
08. New Machines 28:00
09. Resonance 30:58
10. Come Back Down 34:31
11. Half Moon 39:24
12. On The Way Out 43:45

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LIVESTREAMS

[xx_sanic_da_heg_hoge_xx]

01. Intro 00:00
02. Native 03:09
03. Decay 07:11
04. Oort Cloud 11:22
05. Tides 14:48
06. Nights (I Wish I Could Be There) 18:45
07. Odyssey 21:51
08. New Machines 28:00
09. Resonance 30:58
10. Come Back Down 34:31
11. Half Moon 39:24
12. On The Way Out 43:45

[kmdcgth]

Used to work at a dollar store pretty much tucked under a bridge in an old part of town nobody went to often. It was almost always vacant all day, the windows were plastered with ads so i practically had no view outside unless i opened the doors. I was 17 at the time (2017) and had just graduated school so i needed a job because i wasn’t sure what to do next. I hadn’t paid my phone bill so my phone had no service either, but i did have this album on there. Just this album. So daily, i’d roam an empty store (after cleaning and organizing the occasional section) with this playing on my headphones. It was a weird vibe, i’d see no faces from 2:45 pm to 11:30 pm. So to me that place was like purgatory, no day/night cycle except for when i go in and leave. The hours felt endless because of boredom and me not checking what time it is on my phone/could be outside.

I’m not saying it was awesome but im not saying it sucked, all i’m saying is, that was a very weird time in my life because i’d listen to this same album 7-8 times a day for the next 6 months i worked there.

I’m not even sure if i saw over 100 people in that entire time combined.

[gojiralives]

Came here from resonance but this whole thing is vibing.

[barrelw]

Your head makes boom when you know that HOME was 16-17 years old when he made this.

[jordangraupmann]

This doesn’t really just feel like an 80’s thing to me, it feels timeless. That’s something that sets HOME apart from most other Synth-wave artists and HOME is my favorite by far.

[falloutfan]

I wish someone would make a movie with this album. No other music, but they HAD to use this entire album.

[brycewall]

This album now holds a special place in my heart.

[randallferguson]

I remember listening to this on my way to my ex's house, always at night, as that's when I got off work. Always this album too, every day, for years. We'd go on night drives through the foothills of the mountains, or on highways, and this is what I commonly played, seeing as it was synth, which we both liked, and had no lyrics so it could be background music as we talked, looked at the stars, woods, and empty highways. You never really realize the significance of a song/songs until the special moment it's associated with passes. Oh, what I would give to turn back time and fix the mistakes... Now this is how I get to re-live the best moments in my life.

[dimitardimitrov]

One of the most underrated albums in my opinion

[thefunkyduckie]

used to bang this on the way home from school on the train, on cold dark winter evenings, looking out in the darkness and thinking about life. It was only 3 years ago but it feels like a damn lifetime, and listening to this now gives me that happy nostalgia buzz. god damnit I love you HOME.

[mp-]

I first discovered Resonance, the album, and even HOME through a star wars content creator named EckhartsLadder. His outros were composed by parts of Resonance, and through that I discovered a whole new version of music that I'd never heard before. And I know, in my heart, that HOME will stick with me forever.

We've finally found HOME.

[CrimeFighterFrog]

Last year in autumn, I listened to this album almost every morning right after clocking in at work. I started work at 7:15 every morning and when the days get shorter around here, the sun rays don't peek over the mountains yet and the whole valley is coated in early morning twilight.
Progressing through the tracks while working through my morning mails, sipping my latte, enjoying the flow and vibe of each song. Every time "On the Way Out" ended, I knew I had fully awoken and was ready to go into my day, but I also felt like I had just come back from an Odyssey. This whole album is, and I never use this term lightly, a masterpiece.

[AyotheJabaWoky]

I am calling this now: one of the most important albums of the 2010s. This is definitly gonna inspire a lot of people

[Jack-CS]

This shit has inspired a generation of synthwavers. Thanks for being a pioneer of the scene, hope all is well in your world.

[multimapping]

A friend a me were just listening to Resonance while touring in a BMW E30, which is from the 80's, through the city in the dark... Such a relaxing experience.

[stray]

Can we get some love for Oort Cloud? 11:22 probs the most underrated song on the album imo

[disconnectedfromtheinterwe]

the intro has to be the best song on the album next to resonance

[geographyfish]

first album ever bought, first album to ever care deeply about, no matter how many genres i go thru i always gotta pay respect to this masterpiece

[KNBL_wx]

The opening moments of "Tides" at 14:48 immediately transported me into the deserted food court of a dead mall. Sweet...

[VHS_Avenger]

*"Who are the men in the cover?"* some ask.

No one knows, they're probably NASA scientists from the 60s and 70s. The artist used 2 random pictures: the one with them working and the center one with the holographic side profile from National Geographic.

but to quote the artist itself as a source:

_"At the time, I had an illuminated, sculptural face framed by some 70’s era Op-Art that I didn't have a plan for. Looking at it while listening to Odyssey, I saw it matched the mood of the album. I believed the mysterious, overwhelming impression the composition gave fit the totalizing absorption the music created in the listener. I very much felt sucked into Home’s world when I listened to Odyssey, and knew others would feel similarly._

_As an alternative route for additional options, I went in a more vintage and technological direction. In hindsight, I don’t believe I consciously was prioritizing a black and white theme, but when I discovered the large machine cube, I knew I should pursue it. It provided a moody backdrop for a more specific foreground I had yet to find. Coming across pictures from early rocketry experiments, I found what I needed: an image of two men bemusedly watching a third interact with a machine. I thought this worked well with the mechanical backdrop, but now felt the composition needed a point of color to set it all off. I was hoping for something that spoke to the 1970’s or 80’s that I thought Home’s synthesizers nodded to. I was lucky that National Geographic did a piece on holograms in the 1980’s. The piece included an arrangement of faces that I thought worked perfectly with the rest of the piece as a colorful, abstract presence that gave the image life."_
*—John Moriarty's explanation from his own site*

And that's the reason why this cover is amazing.