alcohol ears - For the One to Kiss Clouds (2026)
This record is serious in the way a sealed room is serious. The atmosphere is set immediately and never breaks character, which I respect, but it also never asks anything of time. The sounds arrive complete. They don’t need to change, and they don’t want to.
There’s no filler here, no playlist logic, no obvious sloppiness. Everything is intentional, and everything stays exactly where it lands. The problem is that nothing accumulates. You don’t feel pressure building, memory forming, or meaning shifting. The album doesn’t learn itself.
Industrial sound collage works best for me when it either escalates into something unavoidable or locks me into a condition that becomes oppressive through duration. This does neither. It establishes a mood and then coasts inside it until it stops. Endurance is optional. Leaving early costs nothing.
I don’t dislike this record. I just don’t inhabit it. It doesn’t betray the listener, but it doesn’t reward them either. It’s content to exist as an object rather than a place.
At this length and with this design, it feels less like an album and more like documentation of a state that never develops. When it ends, it doesn’t feel resolved or unfinished—it just feels over.
This is the kind of record I acknowledge, nod at, and then don’t return to.
Genre: Industrial
Country: US
Final Verdict: 50% (Forgettable Album)
Yearly Ranking: 7th / 7
Highlight: For the One to Kiss Clouds
Made me think of:
Body to Body, Job to Job
Filth
Atomizer
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