7/10

There are releases that flirt with experimentation, and then there are those that fully embrace the unknown. With his newest outing 'Comfort Bullet', Cosmic Gloss delivers a three-track EP that feels like a fractured transmission from a mind in the midst of awakening. It’s urgent, disorienting, and fiercely alive.

Opening with the title-track ‘Comfort Bullet’, the EP wastes no time establishing its tone. Jagged rhythms hit with a relentless pulse, while distorted textures ripple and distort around them, creating a soundscape that feels unstable in the most compelling way. Vocals drift between spoken fragments and mantra-like repetition, giving the track a sense of internal dialogue, as if we are being pulled into a stream of consciousness mid-unravelling.

The EP’s second piece ‘Asta(Astra)’ shifts the perspective without losing that sense of unease. There’s a slightly more expansive quality here, with moments where the sound opens up into something almost cosmic. Pulsing electronics and layered atmospheres stretch outward, giving the track a feeling of reaching beyond the immediate noise toward something bigger. Yet even in these more open moments, there’s a tension that never fully resolves, keeping us suspended between clarity and confusion.

Then comes ‘Atrium’, a closing statement that feels both explosive and transformative. Where the earlier tracks feel like confrontation and questioning, this one carries a sense of emergence. The rhythms hit harder, the palette becomes more intense, and everything builds toward something that feels almost cathartic. It’s a breaking point that suggests movement rather than stagnation.

Across all three tracks, there’s a clear thematic thread running through the EP. But what makes Cosmic Gloss stand out is how these ideas are felt rather than simply stated. The music pulls you into its shifting, unsettled landscape and asking you to navigate it yourself.

Throughout, 'Comfort Bullet' disrupts, provokes, and ultimately awakens; resulting in a bold, uncompromising statement from an artist unafraid to dive headfirst into the noise and pull something meaningful out of it.