Spyndycyt – IntrospectionTest: Retro-Futuristic Alt-Pop Psychodrama Scrawled in Self-Inflicted Static

Spyndycyt tears straight into the marrow of human ugliness on IntrospectionTest, giving alt-pop one of its most psychoanalytically charged offerings in recent memory. With more insight into our proclivities towards self-destruction, our lack of humility and our refusal to take accountability than your average Better Help therapist, he captures himself at his most psychologically affecting. The Avant-Gardist pop aural world scriber leans into the base instincts we try to hide, dragging forward the selfish impulses, the denial, the impulse-driven wreckage and the feral need to claw over anyone in reach when desperation takes hold. The way he frames that internal rot has a sting that feels almost too honest. A touch more histrionic than his previous synth pop allegories, IntrospectionTest spills out as a full-blown mental breakdown space pop opera. It is slick with self-lacerated scars, spiralling frustration and those conflicting emotions that create paradoxical friction as they cascade from the hyper-distorted vocal calls into the void of oscillation and retro analogue synth-esque timbre. Each layer heightens the sense of someone unravelling in real time, not with theatrical prettiness but with a messy self-awareness that gives the whole thing teeth. It toys with absurdity and sincerity at once, letting them […]

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