You can tell right away BREATH aren’t trying to make “songs”. Brahman sounds like they’re summoning something – slow, old, and not entirely friendly, but not evil either. It’s that big middle space between calm and collapse. Everything feels stretched out and deliberate, like they’re chasing the space inside the sound, not the sound itself.
The whole record sits heavy, like wet stone. Sticky riffs don’t come at you – they roll past, slow motion, and you just sort of go with it. The drums feel alive, slightly behind time in a way that makes your pulse adjust. You start to drift, then catch yourself, then drift again.
BREATH have been digging in this zone for a while, but Brahman goes deeper – not in some “epic journey” way, more like they’ve stopped looking outward and started tunneling down. There’s djembe in there, a few keys sneaking through the cracks, bits of melody that hang around like ghosts. It’s all blended so the lines disappear. One minute it’s doom, the next it’s drone, the next it’s something that could’ve been recorded in a temple halfway up a mountain if that temple had an Orange amp humming in the corner.
It’s not the kind of record you “get” after a track or two. It’s one long body, shifting and breathing. You can hear the Portland damp in it, that feeling of grey mornings and practice spaces where the air never quite dries out. The guitars have that low, human hum – not massive for the sake of it, but grounded, old wood and current running through it.
What makes Brahman hit harder than their earlier stuff is how unforced it feels. They’re not pushing. They let the thing exist. No solos chasing their tails, no fake mysticism – just repetition until the repetition turns into trance.
When it ends, you don’t even notice at first. The silence just starts to grow around you and you realize it’s over.
Not an album you throw on for background noise. It’s a room you enter. And it doesn’t care if you come back out the same way.
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Released by Argonauta Records on October 24, 2025
Music source for review – Grand Sounds PR
