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Disquiet
Rock · 2020

Disquiet

A frantic, glitch-heavy collection of digital debris and soaring post-rock tension. It sounds like a machine trying to remember how to feel.

November 6, 2020 · Rykodisc

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Disquiet is a visceral exploration of the friction between organic emotion and digital entropy. It sounds like the internal monologue of a city's power grid, oscillating between moments of crystalline beauty and sudden, violent surges of noise. The album rejects the slow-burn cliches of traditional post-rock, opting instead for a fragmented, hyper-active approach where melodies are often buried under layers of granular synthesis and stuttering breakbeats. It is an album that feels perpetually on the verge of a system failure, yet it finds a strange, defiant grace within that instability.

Moments Worth Listening For
the transition where a fragile melodic piano line is suddenly overtaken by a wall of distorted breakbeats
a track that builds a massive post-rock crescendo only to cut to absolute silence for three seconds
the rhythmic interplay between live-sounding drums and a hyper-quantized stuttering drum machine
the moment a layer of white noise resolves into a haunting and recognizable synth melody

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