An Immersive Release from Pulphonics

An album release from Pulphonics features such an array and combination of both digital and natural instrumentation that the record creates an atmosphere that serves as an escape you can fall right into and let float around in the air that surrounds you.
Sonic Unami Vol.1 presents an absolutely gorgeous set of tones and textures that layer and spread across a platform that you can easily get engulfed in.
The album covers everything in terms of genre-bending, and it takes such experimental and unconventional approaches to blending tones and arranging songs that it becomes its own entity.
There is a lot of electronic-based music happening throughout the unfolding of the record and even in terms of just calling it electronic music, this alone spans a wide spectrum.
There are such unique synths and keys along with some very vast undertones and progressive approaches that let songs expand and contract as if they were alive and breathing.
There are songs with vocoder vocals and robotic tendencies but there are also tracks with electric or even acoustic guitars that blend in with these kinds of tones and textures. You're getting such a massive sonic wave of sounds that come towards you at different times throughout the record that it feels almost like waves of intensities that come and go.
This is indeed a heavy-handed experience and it's one of the records that you should listen to from beginning to end because if you only check out one or two tracks from this album you will get nowhere near the range that it has to give as a whole.
The cinematic backbone thrives throughout this release and you get beautiful vocals that are clean, harmonious, honest, and give you some personality along with all the other approaches.
That expansive sort of ambience that happens throughout the tracks and the album can be addictive is part of what wraps itself around you and keeps you right where it wants to.
You get a little bit of a sense of deepening when you listen to this record and if you do indeed listen to it in full then when it's over, you have to snap yourself back into reality again.
The album pulls you away from wherever you are and whatever you are doing and puts you in this completely different place for a good chunk of time and that is a gift.
This is an ever-changing record. No two songs are alike, and no two songs are cookie-cutter in any way, shape, or form. It all comes together in a strangely seamless and forward-moving flow.
This album blends bedroom and indie pop, dream pop, rock, soul, cinematic and alternative pop, and plenty more. It takes all of these genres and rolls them into one record so that you are delivered something with depth and again, beautiful layers that it's just incredibly fun to soak in.
The release sets moods. And puts you in different places throughout its course so you have little journeys that you take with the record and one of the best parts about that is that some of the time it just sets that tone in that mood and lets your mind go off where it may.
So, the way the album is soaked in will differentiate for each listener.
The experience will change depending on who's listening to it and where they are at.
The record is also very colorful and fun with its experimental approaches and pop underbellies which is a constant.
I have to love a record that lets you begin to expect the unexpected after only a few tracks.
That's what this album does. It lets you begin to look forward to something new and different with each new song that comes through. Something unique and built with fewer boundaries than you might be used to.
Utilizing influences that are vintage and classic along with some sounds as well, and bringing those into a current and indie/bedroom pop approach is a brilliant move on about half of these tracks.
Blending in guitars and bass with other instrumentation is another brilliant move in my opinion.
However, having said all of that, I do think this project has some roots in rock music generally. You can hear those influences coming through in hints throughout the release.
This was quite an engaging record and it's been a long time since I got sucked into something like this and just swam around in it.
Again, I can't express enough how important it is to listen to the entire album which spans almost 40 minutes and about 10 tracks.
Also, listening to this record with headphones on is by far the best way to do it.
I'll say it again; there are plenty of layers to be soaked in through a lot of these tracks and headphones are one of the best ways to do that.
At any rate, have a listen to this record and see how it affects you because I'm sure it will.
Remember where you heard it first.
