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Soho Rezanejad’s second full-length release, the double LP Honesty Without Compassion is Brutality, explores the interplay between its title’s three concepts through an expansive soundscape. Honesty serves as a recurring motif, shaping the album’s vocal and instrumental dynamics. Rezanejad’s voice alternates between commanding, pitch-shifted tones and moments of intimate fragility, as heard on tracks like “Love’s a Raging Prey,” where elongated vowels glide over chromatic shifts.

The album incorporates an array of sonic textures, weaving bird calls, fragmented trumpet lines, voicemail recordings, and a child’s voice into its compositions. These elements expand the scope of vocality, transforming human and non-human sounds into narrative tools. While Rezanejad’s earlier album, Six Archetypes, focused on internal psychological landscapes, this project turns outward, engaging with themes of environmental decay, interpersonal conflict, and systemic collapse.

A sense of urgency runs throughout the record, reflecting on compassion’s necessity in the face of impending crises. Balancing moments of stark minimalism with lushly layered arrangements, Honesty Without Compassion is Brutality captures a world in flux, mirroring its external chaos through its experimental yet cohesive approach.

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