Taiwan-based artist Imryll presents Obscure Blood & Love, a meditation on growth, transformation and the life cycles that connect us. Rooted in deep, organic textures and grounded by an elemental sense of rhythm, Obscure Blood & Love balances quiet, intimate moments – where whispered vocals hover like breath against glass – with darker, more unsettling compositions that pulse with life.
Across all nine tracks, Imryll shifts between the hypnotic and the cacophonous. On ‘A Knit of My Own Fibers/Concussion,’ crackling textures build into something disorienting and urgent – an industrial beat and electronic fractures evoking a gothic, spectral presence.
Elsewhere, ‘Kaguya’ offers an ethereal counterpoint – its shimmering textures unfolding like light filtered through a soft-focus lens. On other tracks such as ‘Accurate Angel’ and ‘Bloodclot’, Imryll openly embraces the abstract, their voice splitting and reforming like spores under a lens.
The centrepiece of the album, ‘Spinal Spiral’ encapsulates Imryll’s unique sonic language. It unfolds with a quietly reflective sense of purpose. Like the entire album, the haunting vocals and cavernous soundscapes can be both comforting and disorienting, like the fading remnants of a dream.
Written and produced by Imryll
Mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Đàn tranh by Lam Lu (Track 1)
Flute by Henry Liang (Track 1)
Guitar by Zach Sch (Track 1)
Photography by Amamuzi
Layout and design by Gary Hunter