Vegyn - The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (2024) Hi-Res

For before, during and after the afterhour: Vegyn's “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions” creates space for those thoughts and emotions that inspire us instead of slowing us down and weighing us down.

When is it time to stop? To stop changing things and be content with what is? We all know the feeling of having pushed your own ambitions a little too far and ultimately falling victim to the obsession with optimization. That something that was actually perfect has become chaotic or overloaded due to too much activism - with no way back. Musicians also have to manage to release their songs and records at the right moment. Not producing them dead in order to keep their soul accessible so that listeners can build a deeper connection to the pieces. Joseph Thornalley aka Vegyn went through exactly this learning process when writing, recording and producing his second album “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions” and his conclusion is reflected both in the title of the LP and in the lyrics of some of the tracks – sung by guests John Glacier, Matt Maltese, Léa Sen, Lauren Auder and Ethan P. Flynn – captured. As a co-responsible for works by Frank Ocean and Travis Scott, Thornalley knows the expectations placed on him. Higher, better, further! Until the next Grammy and far beyond! And yet in the end he remains his own biggest critic. On “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions” the Brit soothed inner doubts with smooth beats and gentle melodies. The LP exudes an incredible sense of serenity, which may be due to the fact that some of the pieces were originally created in hotel rooms – small, cozy microcosms – around the globe. Vegyn has tried to change the basic structures of the titles only slightly and to treat them like diamonds in the rough that are still able to sparkle. He succeeded! “The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions” is uncerebral and pure. A crackling album somewhere between ambient, R'n'B and IDM.