There have been some updates and each new album is somehow a completely different style yet absolutely solid in their own rights. Vylet has singlehandedly dominated like 50% of my listening time for the past year.
Carousel
https://vyletpony.bandcamp.com/album/ca ... terthought
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In a baneful comfort
In a cycle of rebirth
A dying creek flows
This is a very narrative-heavy album that, again, I have kind of glossed over because it gets kind of complicated, though the music is solid. It is generally about "talking to your shadow" and how you can come to accept the different flawed parts of yourself. The first half kind of stands on its own with pop / dance tracks like Brohoof, then the second half is more emotional, contemplative and furious. I find myself listening to the last few tracks mostly because they connect together on a continuous series of highs. Fun fact: if you have the album on repeat then the last track blends seamlessly back to the first. I joked with Vylet that the vinyl release should either 1. come with a paper carousel pop-up that spins over your turntable, or 2. be some kind of vinyl mobius strip that never ends once you start it playing
Favorite tracks:
Brohoof (just fun, very 2014 brony energy)
Hush! (Angst and energy)
Carousel (The flip side, melancholy and poetic and hopeful)
Creekflow (if your mood is right this song will leave you emotionally exhausted.
When will I break?????)
I Was The Loner of Paradise Valley
https://vyletpony.bandcamp.com/album/i- ... ise-valley
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Brother, are you proud of me?
I think I'm unfolding
Space and time between my eyes
No tears for beholding
This one feels kind of pieced together and it's more like a mood collage than a throughline narrative. However its theme comes through strong in a very personal way, because it's about ordinary life, growing up in LA, riding the bus, going to high school, and spending time with your friends. Except it's not really any of those things in the moment; rather it's the events seen in reminiscence, thinking about the neighborhood that raised you and the experiences that shaped your youth. Most of all, it deals with the fact that those places and memories no longer really exist any more, and wonders what your old friends might think of the person that you have become after all of these years.
Favorite tracks:
ECR (viiiiibbbess)
Crosses (Best single on the album on its own)
Brother, Are You Proud of Me? (I'm not crying! who's crying? I'll beat him up!)
Girls Who Are Wizards
https://vyletpony.bandcamp.com/album/gi ... re-wizards
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The music never stops, no!
Vylet was fairly young coming into the brony scene in the mid 2010s, and obviously didn't have quite the musical talent they have today. This album is a total love letter to the fandom and a throwback to the Living Tombstone / Omnipony / JayB / Balloon Party / etc. EDM music that you'd hear at Bronycon. Or put another way, it's the album that the fandom deserved back in 2014 if some sort of time travel was possible. Almost every single track slaps and the whole thing is just fire from beginning to end. AND THEN it still ends on a tearful emotional high!?! How do you keep doing this, Vylet? How are the master of every genre that you touch?!??!
Favorite tracks:
As I said, literally every track is amazing, but I think
Potion Seller has to be my favorite. Go listen to it RIGHT NOW.
There is one more album that just came out,
Monarch of Monsters, but I think even showing the album art here would come close to breaking the rules. I'll just say it's very heavy stuff, raw and tortured and traumatic, and definitely not for everyone. Instead, I will post an excerpt from the sort of "making of" booklet that comes with it, which describes the origin of this album's concept, as well as of the lyrics of the final track which is beautiful in its own right.
In the sleep that I did manage to get during this period, my dreams had become immensely vivid. There were periods where I was awake for 4 days at a time, and the sleeps which bookended these periods were hallucinatory. Sometime in the spring or summer, I had a dream about a strange place, with strange people. Somehow I knew there was a person called Aria in that place, and asked around for them. Eventually, I was led into the room where Aria was, and they appeared as someone I had known a long time ago. The person they looked like in the dream wasn't a close friend or anything, it was someone I had scarcely known in my past. It was clear that, in the dream, I had hurt them long ago, and they had been aware even more of the awful person I had progressed into afterward. They asked that I describe every mistake and malevolence I had ever committed throughout my entire life in front of them, so I did. Then at once I had performed this abstract penance before them, and they finished crying and smiled. In the dream, they said they forgave me, and that everything was okay. I laid down, and they stroked my fur, and I only realized then that I had fur all over my body. They said, 'rest now, little wolf' and then I began to fall asleep inside the dream as they softly mingled with the other people in the room.
Rest now, little wolf
Love has not vanished
From the world
Just yet
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