Piotr Michałowski puts a good deal of texture and percussive qualities in the layers of “Something Good.” Its bright, harmonics over pulsing drones in the beginning sounds like the rapid flow of clouds across summer skies if you could experience that in fast forward while your mind remains at rest and soothed by effervescent music. This part of the song flows into a movement where a distant piano intones a simple melodic figure in the background while a cycling rhythm keeps a steady pace and processed electronic strings like distorted violin cuts through it all with a nearly palpable quality. Toward the end a processed white noise breaks the tranquility of the piece like all along we’ve been hearing a secret radio transmission of a performance of an ambient song by a performer now being suppressed by the state and the feed is being interrupted just as the song fades to quiet. To combine the sublime with the unsettling in this way isn’t so common and that sets the song apart. Listen to “Something Good” on Spotify and follow Polish composer Piotr Michałowski at the links provided. The album The New Season released January 16, 2026.
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