Surprise Youtube link =] ! I guess it must've dropped earlier, we were hoping for a Saturday release but it doesn't matter.

Special thanks to Surkol for writing "Chapter II"'s main melody.

A lot of sweat and tears went into this album, here's to a happy new year !

Final thoughts : "Reverb" is an amalgamation of crossing inspirations, the nexus of many different ideas.

I wanted a baroque-pop album (in the vein of The Kick Inside), our drummer wanted a metal album like Pantera (sorry but my fingers weren't built for this), our mixing assistant thought a prog rock album with odd time signatures would be just great.

We compromised.

It's a fun blend of dark, funky, heavy and still has the pop sheen we like while keeping my "Burner" signature touch (secret sauce that I'll divulgate one day)...many ideas go back to early 2021 and our sound is obviously influenced by what's mainstream, except for recently because this time we want to be the trailblazers, we want to push things forward.

We know big producers, studios and acts follow small musicians really closely, so this is our message to them.

By bringing guitars back without specifically being a rock band, we can keep the enigmatic, "genre-less" attribute. It's the one instrument that has been lacking from pop music in recent years, mainly because of the overabbundance of technology, samples and powerful VSTs (that still can't replicate even the cheapest Squier out there, just to tell you how mediocre guitar VSTs are).

That's why I've opted for adding guitars in the vast majority of tracks, it's the main defining feature of the album, and it's not a rock nor metal album.

In a way, it's about "bringing skill back". And that is why I'm putting so much emphasis on Newgrounds, there's real and legitimate homegrown talent in here that deserves a shot instead of the talentless hacks plaguing the airwaves.

/Rant

Now in all honesty, I'm creatively, mentally and physically spent. I'll be sporadically uploading short, half-mixed tunes now and then, but I won't drop a big front-to-back project anytime soon.

Thank you so much for being there since the start !