The Dark Meditator: Two, Noah Lifschey

The Dark Meditator: 2, by Noah Lifschey available on Bandcamp. Released July 25, 2025

I’m in my car with my roommate and he compliments me that the music I was composing the night before was the best he’s heard me play. Problem is I wasn’t playing my music, I had on The Dark Meditator: Two

The Dark Meditator: Two, Noah Lifshey

Noah Lifshey returns with Part 2 of the Dark Meditator. His wild shapeshifting, cross genre, sound experience takes the listener into a darkness that growls, scrapes and bites. 

Things start off with a bubbling acidic clash of modular synth blips and pads that both shake the bones in my chest and send shivers right through me.  Yes, I’m listening to this extremely loud.

Noah in his studio

There are industrial interludes with minimal drones and drums that give way to arpeggios and long glides and move on to grinding drones. The song Floppy’s Exploration takes you on a ride that would rip a hole in the universe. The earth moving piece, Droning in Valencia, hurls bombs of brutal low frequency at you. This is a dark monster of a drone and the monster is going to hurt you.

The imagery that the album paints is so rich. I imagined being in a space capsule that has gone off course. Time is passing by and you are never getting back to earth. You slowly go insane.

There is a mournful tone that permeates the entire album. The soundscapes captured here are

definitely haunted. This album is not goth. It is just really fucking dark. Make friends with it because it is also absolutely brilliant.

This is a fantastic album that I can’t recommend enough. If you like dark, heavy, mournful, soundscape, or industrial music then you should give this a listen. Play it loud, someone else in your house might enjoy it.