Tanner Volz resurfaces with Rian Callahan under their VOCAL alias with Instrumentals, a decade-long, ten-track surge of cinematic synth and industrial momentum that unfolds like a shadowed audio dossier.
VOCAL ignites cinematic industrial depths
Tanner Volz resurfaces with Rian Callahan under their VOCAL alias, stepping forward amid a surge of cinematic synth detonations on his ten year effort Instrumentals. Across ten tracks, this release unfolds as an audio dossier shaped by industrial electronic environments, beginning with “Permanent Delete,” whose emotive propulsion opens a wide, exploratory expanse.
Shadowed yet kinetic forms emerge through “Be Unkind, Don’t Rewind,” while “Give It” crackles with scorched electrical intensity. Ideas swell and recede as calmer passages arrive: “Paint” simmers with ambient heat, “Bibliosmia” flickers through rhythmic sputter, each drifting forward with deliberate momentum. “My Replica” cuts decisively through industrial ambient mechanics, setting a firm axis before closer “The Exit Dance” descends in abstract cadence, its warped blips and bleeps weaving around streamlined melodic strands.
Overall, Instrumentals captures Volz and Callahan at a point of clarity, revealing a command of cinematic synth surges while threading them with darker, melodic introspection powered by mechanical drive. Serene yet transformative, this collection unlocks unfamiliar atmospheres, forming a labyrinth of fractured frequencies bound into a cohesive, resonant whole.
Instrumentals is available on Bandcamp.
