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Melt Motif — Feeding the Error
(Apollon Records AP, 2025, CD / LP / DL)

by Jon Davis, Published 2026-05-06

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On their fourth album, the international trio of Melt Motif further refines their electronic art-pop sound for an engaging set of fourteen songs. In my review of their earlier releases, I mentioned Garbage as a comparison, and that still applies to a certain extent, but Melt Motif puts a lot less emphasis on guitars in the arrangements. We’re to the point in music production where it’s often very difficult to determine how things were originally constructed, but the feeling here is not generally of a group of musicians playing together in a room. It’s more like Rakel Greve (keyboards, vocals), Kenneth Rasmus Greve (guitar, bass, synthesizer, programming), and Joe Lirenti (processing) construct the music track by track, adding parts and manipulating them into their final forms. This is mere description, not judgment — worthy music can be created both ways, as well as by infinite variations between the two extremes. What I like most about Melt Motif is that the music is melodic enough to be catchy, but that sweetness is offset by harsh beats and sounds that don’t tip over into industrial music. Each track is different enough to maintain interest, and they finish off with the moody “Sister,” which is the most “live” sounding song in the set with its guitars, bass, drums, and ambient synth backing. And — oddly enough for the style — there’s a guitar solo! My preferred attitude is to disregard genre and stylistic categories and just say I enjoy the music.

Filed under: New releases, 2025 releases

Related artist(s): Melt Motif

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http://meltmotif.bandcamp.com/album/feeding-the-error

 

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