There Was a Wind, But No Chime
by Dot Dev
- There Was a Wind
- I Don't Need You to Respect Me
- Caricatures on the Pier
- Pallet Jack
- Interest is the Compass
- Interview
- Professor Latent
- The Hyperlink That Kills You
- My Heart
- Places I Rode
- My Favorite
- The Things You Dare To Dream Really Do Come True
All produced by Dot Dev, except "Professor Latent" by DJ Medamaude and "Places I Rode" by Stale Brick.
Mixed by Dot Dev.
Mastered by lilith.
For Fans Of: Open Mike Eagle, MF DOOM, The Mountain Goats, E L U C I D, billy woods
The rapper is looking to move off of the quickfire online references that punctuated their time as Pink Navel, and instead take a decidedly more autobiographical tilt to their stylings. Odes to vlogging pioneer Ze Frank and the traveling salesman Beedle from Legend of Zelda make way for Dev-centric tales, exploring how bike-riding changed their life on “Places I Rode” and spitting about their thoughts on mortality through allegorical references to “the hyperlink that kills you” on a track of the same name.
That’s clear from the album’s opening, characterized by piano loops and ride cymbals over which Bailey ponders progress, both creative and personal. “I was focused on the Z, but only acting on the A,” they observe. They leave that mentality behind on the sublimely peaceful “Places I Rode,” and enjoy the journey, whether it be on the saddle of a bike or as a musician traveling through space and time.
From the very beginning, There Was A Wind, But No Chime strikes a heartbreaking note. Backed by cushion-y synths and quiet splashes of cymbal, Dot Dev (who used to record as Pink Navel) fumbles through the emotions that accompany the loss of a parent, at one point realizing, “Now someone else has your phone number, a specter of what’s old/ And, you know, I didn’t even think about this part.”
