Gill Squeezer The chants and insane screams that transform into a calm sorrowful melody of this album really made my invisible bones tingle with a newfound joy. Favorite track: My Ouija Board Spelt S-C-A-M.

The Dusk Chapel Imagine if Kemialliset Ystävät took a dark turn during a bad acid trip and joined Sun City Girls for an impromptu jam session that ended with summoning Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos and you'll be somewhere in the vicinity of the realm Ak'chamel has been residing for a while now.

Adam Cohen There's an addictive quality that keeps me coming back. Dreamlike, timeless and entrancing. Like unearthing a strange relic from some long forgotten burial ground. The high strangeness of this is not just convincing, it's palpable...and utterly enjoyable.

eternus58 Always what i love!!!

Elías Ortega Fajardo Entrancing textures and rhythms.

spiros_metsouggis Like a fever dream, ominous yet...inviting. Great stuff.

Giles This track in particular might be my favourite by the Necks, it's amazing how much tension and feeling it builds up without any obvious changes moment-by-moment. The rest of the album is great too, you really get every aspect of the band in one place. Favorite track: Blue Mountain.

John Cratchley The music of The Necks exposes the inadequacy of language to describe it...all I can really do is listen, re-listen and absorb it to the best of my limited ability and try to do justice to the act of listening.
The music and listening to it are an act of "unfolding" I think; taking something small and opening it out to reveal the larger canvas. I like this analogy and the way it introduces rigour, discipline and order into the act of listening.

jahknee I am entranced by this band's output. So very excited to get this new album, just in time for a bleak winter season.

Brent Davis Could prove to be my favourite album of 2024.

rvss.eel This is an ambient album, which I'm good with because I enjoy a lot of ambient music, especially piano-driven, but it'll only go so far with some. There's a lot of beauty in Bleed, with piano, bells, and atmospheric sounds setting different tones as the song shifts throughout it's runtime. It's especially beautiful when the piano returns late in the piece. But it's also oddly menacing at times. While it moves, I'm not sure it goes anywhere, which I hope for in ambient tracks of this length.

rvss.eel I thought Bleed was very good, but not great. Disquiet, however, is greatness. An album of this length is risky, but it works as three disks individually, and as a three hour whole. Rapid Eye Movement and Ghost Net are equally propelling in completely different ways. Causeway is utterly beautiful from the opening notes, and sublimely shocking when the drums finally join in. Warm Running Sunlight seems to suspend time. Disquiet could be even longer if it wanted to.

This is my #5 album of 2025. Favorite track: Causeway.

Giles Astonishingly great, proving in the most maximal way that The Necks method is not a formula, it's an inexhaustible vein of very precious material. Every off-kilter cymbal pattern, subtle variation of tone, and shifting accent is utterly convincing and compelling and the emotional and intellectual depth is greater than ever.

Alex Mott Absolutely love this music. I have never heard of them before but now looking forward to diving into the back catalogue. All the tracks are great but Causeway is the standout for me.