If you picture this album exactly as it is titled, then you're mostly on the right track. Like a city, this album takes different neighborhoods of structured musical places and lays them out like geography.
In context of the city, Track 04 - Inside Elevation would be a suburb overtaken by marshlands and swamp. A rhythmic hum guides you through the 5:07 minutes of this song like a wooden walkway, denoted by the sage-like guitar accompaniment. This song takes some extra consideration, though, when it is overtaken by static and feedback something like halfway through the song, but is yet a pleasure to be heard.
If our imaginative metropolis were a city by the sea, Track 07 - Het Volk would be a lonely sloop, lost in the still bay on an eerie night. Moreover, the captain might be a character like Jonah, engaged in a steep spiritual or psychological crisis to the sound of melodic beeps and boops.
When listening to Track 05 - Skylight, i can't help but think of professional practice buildings, in which places there is always an enforced sense of silence to the deserted, elegant hallways. I imagine the setting of this song to be an eternal confinement in one of these ghostly buildings, doomed to an existence of repeating the same corridors with the natural light of a summer's noon-day pouring through the windows and the skylights.
All in all, a very diverse settlement of sound, from these three songs alone. Together, they're like eight colonies of pop and dub in a new world of ambience and ease. Make the pilgrimage! Your mind is the only Mayflower you need for Pan American's "Quiet City"
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