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What is Aether Atlas?

Music criticism meets data visualization

Aether Atlas is a personal journal of thoughts and feelings about songs that hold a special place in my heart. Each review explores the emotional and sonic textures that make music meaningful.

The Atlas maps songs in a psychological space—tracks that feel similar appear closer together, creating a navigable constellation of sound. Built using similarity rankings and dimensionality reduction.

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You Will Never Know Why

Sweet Trip

A radical departure from Sweet Trip’s electronic heart in Velocity: Design: Comfort, this album is, at its core, acoustic. It leans into Sweet Trip’s lining of innocent-sounding whimsy, abandoning the complex glitch-pop sound for a lullaby-esque quality.