There is a specific kind of digital claustrophobia embedded in the latest release from Watch Me Die Inside, aptly titled “Infinity Fall I”. Aleph, the sonic architect behind this Cypriot project, seems less interested in adhering to genre boundaries and more interested in the musical equivalent of grinding your teeth while smiling politely at a dinner party.
The title track, “Infinity Fall I”, sets a trap. It offers these sparse, clean notes a spacious, ringing register where you think you can finally breathe before the floor inevitably drops out. The resulting wall of low-frequency distortion doesn’t just hit you; it engulfs the room. It reminds me vividly of a brutalist library I once visited in London; cold, imposing concrete that somehow felt fiercely emotional when the grey rain hit it. The transition from that fragile introspection to a chaotic explosion of anguish captures the exact physiology of a panic attack.
This structural anxiety bleeds into “Weak Tension.” The syncopation here is rigid, almost cruel. It exploits that modern djent influence, where the rhythmic stabs feel like someone checking a door lock over and over again to ensure it’s secure. Yet, a high-register vocal melody glides over the top, almost ignoring the machinery grinding underneath. It creates a friction that is difficult to look away from, a struggle against unseen forces that feels oddly familiar.
I found myself consistently circling back to “Something Is Wrong.” The duality here is stark. It opens with shimmering, reverberating plucks like dust motes caught in a projector beam before descending into low-tuned, staccato violence. It captures the slow erosion of a tranquil facade. You know that feeling when you realize you’ve been reading the same paragraph in a book for ten minutes without absorbing a single word? That static mental disconnect is exactly what Aleph has weaponized here.
The EP oscillates between ethereal beauty and suffocating heaviness, creating a space that feels simultaneously calculated and emotionally raw. Is this a cathartic release of a burdened spirit, or are we just staring into the void while a synthesizer hums in the background?
