Separation Team – Siren Section

More than eight years after their last full-length release, Siren Section return with Separation Team, a 19-track concept record that feels both meticulously engineered and emotionally frayed. Built over four years, the album refines their self-described “glitchgaze” sound — a fusion of post-punk tension, shoegaze atmosphere, and glitch-driven electronics. From the slow-building opener “Construct” to the anxious propulsion of “Bullet Train,” the duo establishes a world where distortion functions less as aggression and more as environment. The production is immersive and architectural, layering guitars, synths, and fractured rhythms into something dense but deliberate.

As the record unfolds, standout moments emerge without breaking the album’s cohesive spell. “Medicine” and “Glass Cannon” provide some of the most immediate melodic hooks, balancing heaviness with clarity and demonstrating the band’s instinct for accessibility beneath the noise. Tracks like “They Will Never Find Us” and “Minotaur” lean into darker, more cavernous textures, while the paired instrumentals “Tritagonist 1” and “Tritagonist 2” fracture and reassemble motifs in ways that reinforce the album’s themes of fragmentation and emotional multiplicity. Even in its most intense passages, the band shows restraint — tension builds patiently, releases subtly, and often collapses inward rather than exploding outward.

By the time the closing stretch arrives — particularly “Some of This Means Everything,” “Carry Through,” and the subdued finale “Five Fifty Five” — Separation Team reveals itself as less a collection of singles and more a sustained emotional arc. The album resists neat resolution, instead settling into ambiguity and quiet endurance. It’s a demanding but rewarding listen, one that favors immersion over immediacy. In embracing atmosphere, vulnerability, and structural disorientation, Siren Section deliver their most cohesive and fully realized work to date.

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