Clattermouuuth’s Music of The Week: ‘Vanisher, Horizon Scraper’ By Quadeca

By Andrew Kohler

Welcome back to Clattermouuuth’s Music of the Week, curating Rockaway’s music taste one week at a time.

This week, I wanted to talk about the new, groundbreaking Quadeca album: “Vanisher Horizon Scraper.” I don’t think I ever anticipated an album more than this one, and it did not disappoint.

Quadeca used to be a pretty cringe YouTube rapper, and I wasn’t really a fan until he released his third studio album, “I Didn’t Mean to Haunt You,” which was a super original narrative album about the afterlife. He then released another album, “Scrapyard,” which further changed his legacy from a YouTuber to a true, innovative artist.

“Vanisher, Horizon Scraper” was released on the 25th, and it did not let me down at all. It’s another narrative album about someone who gets lost out at sea in search of the horizon. In the album, the horizon serves as a metaphor for an unattainable goal that many of us become lost focusing on. It’s an album about obsession and yearning for something completely unattainable.

I think the meaning of the album is to really focus on the journey more than the destination. In an annotation — or comment — on the music website “Genius,” Quadeca states, “It is through the act of surrender that you can regain a more honest form of control, one that respects the universal constants that you are always at the mercy of.” What he’s saying, I think, is that the more we fixate on the outcome of our journey, the more we obsess over control, progress, and perfection.

While Quadeca’s new album is not just about someone lost at sea, but about all of us lost in our own journey, and if we’re constantly focused on the end of our journey, the journey won’t ever end.