"I Didn't Mean To Haunt You" - Quadeca

Haunting, Beautiful, Etherial, Otherwordly, heartbreaking and the best album of 2022

Born Yesterday has been my favorite song of 2022 since the day it was released. The song was stuck on my head for months and I didn't mind at all. I've been looking forward to this album ever since I heard about it and I'm not disappointed in the slightest. This album is dark, sad, chilling and feels haunted. It's maximalistic with so much detail to immerse you in this ghostly realm. I listened to the album with all the lights off at night in my room and it was a crazy experience. I recommend this album to anyone that loves music because this is music at it's most amazing. It doesn't even feel like an album. It feels like something so much more.

The album begins with the song "sorry4dying". It starts of with this grand and orchestral buildup until it turns into a piano song that's alike to "All My Life" by Quadeca of the deluxe version of FMTY. The vocals are shaky and distorted with so many small background elements to aid to the experience. Then the drums kick in and quadeca sings this pretty and whispery melody as the orchestra builds up to my favorite part. Everything dies down a bit and Quadeca sings this looping melody with the bit-crushed effect and it sounds so beautiful and then these intense but muffled industrial drums build up until it ends with a guitar and Quadeca's beautiful melody loop and a choir and it transitions into the song

"tell me a joke". The second single that was released after "Born Yesterday". When it was released I was still high on the release of "Born Yesterday" (yes an entire month later I was still high on Born Yesterday) so I compared "tell me a joke" with "Born Yesterday" and I felt it wasn't as good but, This song fucking slaps. The "haha, laugh to you're grave" sounds great and the production is on point as always, the beat drop the near the end is intense and loud and it's an overall fun song to listen to.

The song "born yesterday" is a song I already went into length about in my single review when it came out. LINK HERE but I still love this song so much. It's the best song of 2022 in my opinion and you can't convince me otherwise. The impact and the power of it is heartbreaking. The story is so well described and it's just such a pretty song. After 3:35 it builds up to this incredible and stunning musical moment that made me tear up on first listen. It's so incredibly well sung and produced, it hits every checkmark on how to make something that hits hard. It gives me goosebumps when he sings "every little thing, i did to make you proud" OMG IT. IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD! I knew for a fact that Quadeca was underrated and was destined to make something amazing after I heard the song "Sisyphus" off his last record. "Born Yesterday" is like Sisyphus but even better somehow! and Sisuphus was my favorite song of 2021!

"knots" is the coolest song I've heard in so long. This song sounds fucked up and deranged. It has these horror sounds as instruments with these crazy basses and synths that sound like they're a glitch. At 2:00 it reminds me heavily of songs like "The Reason They Hate Me" by Daugters, with the guitar especially but for the most part this song is this incredibly scary, dark and HARD rap song. It sounds like insanity and it's one of my absolute favorites off this record.

The final song, "cassini's division"is the most chilling and haunted song I've heard. This weird and uncanny vocal sample play's throughout the entire track and it really makes this sound scary. As I was listening to the album for the 4th time I had the genius lyrics up and was reading along and I had never gotten the starting words.

"You came out of the room and you were crying in a way that nobody could hear. I stopped kicking and screaming when you turned the lights on. You woke me up. I felt naked, I felt exposed. I felt like for the first time, I was intruding on something. You woke me up"

Finding out that this line is about someone walking in on Quadeca killing himself. Maybe hanging himself. It's insane how much darker of a turn this album took. This song makes me feel a way I can't really describe. It makes me feel bad, or more like i'm at a loss for words. Walking in on someone you love killing themselves is one of the most haunting, bone chilling and horrifying things I can imagine. I had already come to the conclusion that Quadeca had killed himself but for some reason this song made it so much more serious and real.

This album is amazing. I love it to death and the more I listen, the more I notice, the more I love it. Quadeca has made a masterpiece. A piece of art that feels important. This is my favorite album of the 2022 and it could become something even more than that the more time goes on. "I Didn't Mean To Haunt You" is a

10/10

Top 3: born yesterday, knots, fractions of infinity

(This review was written on November 12th, 2022)