NCP Moydolf nocommercialpotential - Sapphire Seas (1st demo)

"Sapphire Seas opens with a wistful ugly honk. An echo of what could’ve been a fully-formed gem. There’s a gentle but flat melodic idea here. The demo is rough with nonsensical mumbled abstract lyrics drifting with a kind of fragile intent. You sense that something beautiful is knocking on the walls of its own limitations but all you get is a box of melted crayons.

NCP’s decision to release another half-shaped sketch feels typical of their frustrating pattern: flooding their small group of listeners with demos and unfinished pieces while rarely offering a cohesive or completed vision. Sapphire Seas deserves more than this treatment—it carries the skeleton of something memorable, yet it’s left to rattle alone in the archive. The vocal feels like it was captured mid-thought, the instrumentation gestures at structure but never commits.

As a standalone demo, it flickers with some promise—but you’re left wondering what it might have become if someone had bothered to finish the thought. There’s charm, but also squander. No sonic booms at the back of the studio." ~ Ahmed Mouflaf






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