Objects

Reviewing this honestly feels a bit illegal. It’s my first time ever attempting a classical album review and of course it had to be this - a project that barely behaves like an album at all. Isobel Waller-Bridge (yes, Phoebe’s sister) has created something that sits somewhere between a score, a meditation, and an installation you’d experience in a sound museum. Trying to slap a number on it feels wrong, because it’s more of an atmosphere than a collection of tracks.

Objects operates like a series of sonic rooms you walk through. Some are cold and sparse, some are unexpectedly warm, some are just… there, holding space. It’s immersive in a way that makes you forget to critique it. The strings drift in and out like they’re thinking for you, and the piano feels like it’s whispering memories back at you. It’s not emotional in a dramatic way, more in a “your brain has gone very still” way.

That’s the thing: this whole project kind of resists being broken apart or analysed. It’s art for the sake of mood, texture, and space. A true soundscape. Giving it a rating feels almost beside the point ... but here we are.

FAVE TRACKS🔥: Shoe, Hoever
LEAST FAVE TRACKS❌: Tapes, Objective Contemplation