This Material Moment (2025)

""Useful Analogies." Dent skillfully uses language's power to capture and subvert states of being on the clanging, crashout standout "Compromise!". "This Material Moment" returns to reality downplays the electronics that made RPG teem with virtual life in favor of echoing spaces where the past and future coexist, and where Dent weaves classical, folk, industrial, and rock together seamlessly. On "A Painting Of The Wind" the harmonies and instrumentation allude to styles of music from many centuries before; "Have You Been Changing?" and "Ancient Summer" borrow from icy post-punk, yet they all feel of a piece. The cavernous sonics heighten the timeless quality of Me Lost Me's music on luminous, nearly a cappella pieces such as "Still Life" and "A Souvenir." They also underscore the album's lonely, unsettled heart. The wonderfully eerie "A Small Hand, Clamped" and nightmarish "Take It On Board" resemble folk dirges from the future." (AllMusic; 4 uit 5 sterren)