I often see Uboa described as cinematic, maybe due to how large-scale and ambitious the music of their breakout project The Origin Of My Depression was. But to me, the sound that Xandra Metcalfe achieves—even going back to earlier records like Coma Wall—is a sound that manages to unify inhuman sounds with scorchingly frank humanity, music that is often uncompromisingly dark but never feels detached from human experiences. Impossible Light, the new Uboa record, is Xandra’s first full-length since her 2019 sleeper-breakthrough The Origin Of My Depression, though Uboa has kept active as a project, releasing collaborative records with Teeth … Continue reading Review: Uboa – Impossible Light