Iress
Solace


4.0
excellent

Review

by jesper STAFF
May 18th, 2023 | 29 replies


Release Date: 05/12/2023 | Tracklist

Review Summary: if you have the time to read this you also have the time to listen to this record

In the three years that have passed since Flaw, Iress’ excellent sophomore album, not much has changed for the band. The L.A. outfit remain highly sludgy, grungy and engulfing, with the brand new EP Solace presenting a snapshot of this unwavering quality. Michelle Malley’s gravelly voice continues being the star of the show as she guides the four new tracks through ethereal ponderings and crushingly intense sections with ease. The massive “Ricochet” ebbs and flows before swaying its soundscape into an uncompromising yet deceptively vulnerable climax, exemplifying everything Iress do best in just a few minutes. However, as wonderful as this record may be, its main problem can be summarised in a sentence that many Sputnikmusic dot com users will be highly familiar with: it’s too damn short.




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Comments:Add a Comment 
JesperL
Staff Reviewer
May 18th 2023


5601 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

fuckin love this band

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
May 18th 2023


18262 Comments


Damn. That's short form extreme.

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
May 18th 2023


5601 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

thank you, single-word reviews will be the next craze

(also check this! i think you might like this!)

hesperus
May 18th 2023


1465 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

too damn short indeed. Vanish ended just as it was getting going

Manatea
Staff Reviewer
May 18th 2023


2041 Comments


This is like… really good.

Also jesp i think you need to find out what the world record is for longest coherent sentence and try and break it with a review. Just sayin’

chronoclast
May 18th 2023


49 Comments


Flaw was mesmerizing.

MTObsidian
May 18th 2023


242 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This is really good. Listening to Flaw right now as a follow-up and it's just as good. How are they so under the radar?

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
May 18th 2023


5601 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i don't know!! i keep hoping they'll get more recognition asap so they can consider putting out more than a handful of songs every couple of years haha

you know what manatea.. challenge accepted (i'll just have to wait for the right album to come around for that hahah)

DarkNoctus
May 18th 2023


12320 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

this is lovely, thank you, didn't know they had new stuff out

Purpl3Spartan
May 18th 2023


8891 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

nice rev might check

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 18th 2023


32092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Great band, will check today!



This is officially a Jespcore band.

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Oh shit she totally sounds like King Woman now.

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


5601 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

hell yeah bois!!

"Oh shit she totally sounds like King Woman now." isn't it beautiful?!! i'm desperate for a full length with these even-more-gravelly vox haha

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

Yeah this was fucking A material. like it even more than the debut. Four really good tracks, Ricochet especially is madnificent.

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


32092 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

And off to BNM with you lol

JesperL
Staff Reviewer
May 19th 2023


5601 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

hell yeah haha, right where she belongs!

WatchItExplode
May 19th 2023


10500 Comments


I read this as Irepress and briefly questioned my reality with the ocean and irepress releasing albums on the same day in 2023

artiswar
May 19th 2023


14691 Comments


I loved the one from 2020, can't wait to check this

pizzamachine
May 19th 2023


27548 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Pretty nice dream pop doom.

teamster
May 19th 2023


6276 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

More!!! More!!!!! Full length next time please!!! Love this band also.



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