Joakim’s Milky Ways begins on an unpredictable decibel with a powerful and heavy metal inspired track, ‘Back to Wilderness’ clocking in at just over the 8-minute mark. From the very beginning, an atypical Joakim presents himself and his artistry as having an unpredictable direction (much like the vastness of intergalactic travel), forcing me to question whether this was a genuine Joakim album I was reviewing. However, after the excess of the power-ballad subsides, we are brought down to the characteristic electrorhythms with ‘Ad Me’ and the beautifully crafted ‘Fly Like an Apple.’

Perhaps my favorite track on the album, ‘Fly Like an Apple’ paints a very pixilated picture of a complicated situation coming to various problematized resolutions (marked by the rise in tempo and noise), that one only hopes reaches a favorable conclusion: Its construction is similar to a graphic of a sine wave, example: sin(Joakim)=Fly Like an Apple, too bad the song has to end. Milky Ways is a simple yet multilayered album that fires on all cylinders. With tracks like ‘Spiders’ that continue the theme of the ‘out-there’ commenced by ‘Ad Me,’ prolonged by ‘Love & Romance & a Special Person,’ and topped off with ‘Medusa’ and ‘Little Girl.’

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