Jonas Verwijnen Expresses the Distortion of Inner Struggles With the Tranquility of Their Resolution on Ambient Glitch Track “This is Going Down the Wrong Path”

“This is Going Down the Wrong Path” sounds in the beginning like emerging from a dark interior space into a place wide open with crystalline tonal textures that shimmer. From there Jonas Verijnen seems to use echoing tones and resonating, impressionistic bell melodies and hushed splashes of luminous yet percussive that sustain and linger. It sounds like the musical equivalent of an abandoned subway tunnel adjacent to more active lines with the sounds of acceleration nearby. Fluttering noises and rapidly echoing ethereal distortion boil up and dissolve rapidly like the flight of a dragonfly before it goes off in search of its prey. And just as suddenly the song ends leaving you wondering where this established sense of place leads and how the enigmatic atmospheres and lightly melancholic moods might resolve yet it doesn’t feel like an incomplete composition. Rather, it introduces the rest of Verijnen’s EP 1 (out April 5, 2024) which has titles referencing about miscommunication and yearning to be understood as well as neurodivergence and the struggles that spring therefrom. But there is a soothing side to the way the composer expresses psychological discordance in music that embodies inner struggles and coming to terms with them in the moment. It’s a consistently interesting balance throughout the EP’s five songs. Listen to “This is Going Down the Wrong Path” on Spotify where you can hear the rest of the EP.