more transcendent

It’s this idea that when you let go of something you can free up all this energy and space to have an understanding that is so much more transcendent than the everyday understanding we have about the world being zero sum and how things are supposed to work.

Yet the band’s songs aspired to something more transcendent.

“Thankfully the result was in our favor and that play wasn’t more transcendent.”

Though it sold modestly upon its release in March 1972, and was out of print for much of the 1980s and ’90s, “Neu!” cleared the path soon trod by Brian Eno and David Bowie, and later countless others who were searching for a way out of established rock-and-roll tropes toward something more transcendent and strange.

That I was something more transcendent, more silent.