Greyscale's 48th full-length release arrives with Dial Back, a deeply textural statement from Japanese artist Juri Suzue, whose work drifts between ambient dub, experimental electronics and noise. The album sounds like a series of spatial installations-sound environments that seem to occupy physical space rather than simply hint at them. Suzue sculpts tones like materials, letting them hover, erode, distort and expand until the listener is pulled fully inside their atmosphere.
'Ash' begins with a distant, mechanical throb. Like a machine warming into consciousness with chords flickering in and out of clarity. 'Existence in Delusion' follows with a gorgeous wash of ambient harmonies, airy and introspective, where glitch fragments surface like thoughts interrupting meditation. 'Unforgettable Sight' goes deeper into experimental territory, its cave-like drips and faint distortions giving the sense of wandering through an abandoned underground chamber filled with electromagnetic residue. The title track, 'Dial Back', is heavier and more abstract, deep distortion humming like raw matter forming itself, with no rhythm to ground the feeling of suspended time. 'Someone's Lips' brings a gentle emotional uplift, its dreamy chords wrapped in soft static memories. 'Mom' pushes into sci-fi territory with laser-like zaps and echoing metallic textures, evoking a massive alien docking station where signals malfunction and repair themselves in cascading patterns. 'In the Fog' introduces the album's most physical momentum: a rolling, distorted beat beneath waves of churning, machine-like motion, conjuring the sensation of drifting through deep-sea pressure zones. Finally, 'Forget Everything' closes the journey on a calming note. The broken beats and soft ambient dub tones create a reflective exhale after the album's more complex, disorienting moments.
With Dial Back, Juri Suzue gives a strikingly cinematic blend of atmosphere, environmental, abstraction and emotional abandonment. Where abstract feels more like an anomaly than planned occurrence. Its an album that aligns with Greyscale's world-building aesthetic.