There Will Come Gentle Rain by HMOT

For those who move to the imperial core from a marginalized region, a constant fight rages to retain cultural memory in the face of a colonizer determined to rewrite history. This struggle plays out on There Will Come Gentle Rain by HMOT, a collection of sonic memories bursting forth from within the colonizer state. Strikingly diverse sonic influences pour into the album, spanning from traditional vocal melodies, solemn field recordings, crisp electroacoustic production, and freeform composition sensibilities. We experience these memories as self-aware reconstructions of a physically distant yet emotionally immediate place, feeling the subtle tug of colonial misinterpretation from the outside. However, an organized effort to retell these intimate stories, in this instance through idiosyncratic sounds, both subverts mainstream expectations and presents something immediately emotionally accessible, assaulting the colonial mindset on all fronts while spreading all-important empathy for these people we have been programmed to habitually forget.