Discarded elements of broken rhythms, volatile drones, and mechanized auditory collisions are hurled together in an anarchic cascade of aural experimentation. Yet from this rubble, something transcendent emerges.
An anarchic cascade of aural experimentation
In a sonic wasteland scorched by machine reverberations and severed circuit elegies, Transverse—the collaborative force of Matthew Richter and Jason T. Lamoreaux—crafts an unsettling yet oddly restorative journey through post-industrial dreamscapes. Discarded elements of broken rhythms, volatile drones, and mechanized auditory collisions are hurled together in an anarchic cascade of aural experimentation. Yet from this rubble, something transcendent emerges.
Drawing from field recordings—some seemingly captured adrift in maritime purgatory, others washed ashore in ghostly silence—the duo assembles sound in a way that is both artificial and alive. Each piece suggests a contemplative pilgrimage through the echoes of collapsed systems and half-remembered futures.
As jarring as it is redemptive ::
Their third album, It’s Broken, threads a narrative as jarring as it is redemptive. From the convulsive transmissions of “Capitalism is the Noose,” where sonic detritus pulses with subversive intent, to the frantic entropy of “Tick Tock Motherfuckers,” a kinetic unraveling of precision into raw emotion, the collection submerges us in a beautiful malfunction.
The opener, “It’s Not the Fall that Kills You, It’s the Deductible,” cascades with metallic piano motifs and a looming mechanized malaise, setting the tone for a record that confronts decay with unflinching grace. In “A Moment to Breathe,” time disintegrates into lucid stillness, offering an interlude of cerebral clarity amidst the chaos.
And then, the finale: “It’s All So Fucked Up”—a cosmic absolution, cloaked in shimmering synthesizers that stretch like starlight across ruins. It’s here, in the heart of collapse, that Transverse delivers its most poignant message: that from wreckage, resonance can still rise. A dystopia, yes—but one that hums with the potential for beauty to emerge, fractured and luminous.
It’s Broken is available on Somewherecold July 4, 2025. [Bandcamp]
