Japanese shoegaze outfit 2beef return with their second EP, Orbs, a release that feels suspended somewhere between ethereality and weightiness. Built around the idea of reincarnation into another world, the EP drifts through dense walls of reverb and blurred emotion, channeling heaviness without ever losing its sense of enchantment.
Standout track, Helvetica standard, captures the EP at its most affecting, being a crushing shoegaze cut soaked in emotional weight, where distorted guitars swell. There’s a dreamlike quality in the track that borders on the tangible, with its overall atmosphere doing as much storytelling as the lyrics themselves.
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