For Those I Love - Carving the Stone (2025)
Carving the Stone confronts modern life in Dublin with a razor-sharp mixture of anger, grief, and tenderness — turning personal pain into a broader commentary on class, housing crises, identity and belonging. Spoken-word verses ride over a shifting musical landscape that moves between rave-tinged electronic beats, post-punk guitars, and traditional-music inflections, reflecting the instability and contradictions of urban life in 2025. Songs like “No Scheme” and “Mirror” hit hard with frustration and despair, while others — particularly “Of The Sorrows” — land as elegies for a city and a culture under pressure. Despite the often bleak subject matter, the album closes with a fragile sense of hope — a refusal to be silenced, and a commitment to stay and fight. For anyone who believes music can be both protest and poetry, this is one of the most powerful albums of the year.
Genre: Spoken Words
Country: Ireland
Final Verdict: 64% (Good Album)
Yearly Ranking: 342th / 815
Highlight: The Ox / The Afters
Made me think of:
The Twilight Sad
New Order
Billy Woods
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