User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Summary: The third full-length studio release from Singaporean artist Nat Ćmiel as yeule was written and produced with Kin Leonnas.
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Record Label: Ninja Tune
- Genre(s): Pop, Electronic, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic, Dream Pop, Ambient Pop, Left-Field Pop
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 12 out of 12
-
Mixed: 0 out of 12
-
Negative: 0 out of 12
-
Sep 25, 2023The record showcases their most cohesive and potentially most versatile stylistic palette to date. Returning fans will find the likes of “softscars”, “ghosts” and “bloodbunny” full of familiar glitchy flourishes, and “inferno” within a stone’s throw of Serotonin II’s understated reveries, but there’s a much more ‘physical’ presence to the music here.
-
Sep 22, 2023Even at its darkest, though, softscars is a blast, its turbo-charged riffs and sticky melodies all but begging you to crank the volume up to levels that will require future ENT visits. And there are plenty of purely fun moments here too.
-
Sep 21, 2023While it's not always as easy to listen to as yeule's previous recordings, softscars contains some of their strongest songwriting and most daring sound design, and feels like the most honest expression of their vision to date.
-
Sep 21, 2023The music — a mix of digital sound with electric and acoustic guitars and live (or at least live sounding) drums — complements their newfound humanist approach to songwriting. 2022's Glitch Princess shattered pop music into a million little pieces. Here Ćmiel has glued things back together, but the cracks are still visible in the way they pair genre tropes.
-
Sep 21, 2023It’s an impressive step-up from an artist who was already operating miles ahead of their peers. ‘soft scars’ can be an emotionally excruciating experience, but it finds yeule connecting with their humanity in ways that seemed impossible just one year ago.
-
Sep 29, 2023Its musical journey mirrors yeule’s life progression, pairing alternative rock with electronic glitch just as yeule couples their human self with their cyborg persona. This creates spectacular results, opening up to raw and honest emotion all while maintaining the mystery.
-
Sep 21, 2023yeule’s willingness to play with sonic landscape and sci-fi dystopia means their version of emo is more infectiously haunting than the blueprint.