7/10

Under his Post Death Soundtrack banner, Stephen Moore returns with something far more visceral. Thirty songs deep, 'In All My Nightmares I Am Alone' is a raw, chaotic, and deeply human return for an artist brimming with unbridled pursuits. This is what it sounds like when someone sets the wreckage of their life to tape and hits “record” without looking back.

Opening with 'Tremens', written mid-delirium, the album kicks off like a panic attack. Frantic textures and sputtering industrial beats claw throughout, masquerading as a tongue-in-cheek approach that quickly mutates into something more primal, with Moore spiralling through a haze of noise, static, and pure psychic unravelling.

And yet, the chaos never feels aimless. From the rabid punk vitriol of 'Final Days' to the delicate grief humming through 'We Fall', Moore’s furious yet fractured voice remains the unifying thread. Grunge influences bleeds into dark ambient as noise collapses into melody. Even when the transitions jar, they’re deliberate, like snapshots from different corners of the same haunted house.

But perhaps the album’s deepest cuts are the personal elegies. 'Song for Bonzai', a wordless farewell to a beloved feline companion, is crushing in its restraint, while 'Something Stirs' crawls under the skin with ghost stories and grief woven into its DNA. These quieter moments are what tether the record to something brutally real. They offer no neat resolution, just a kind of aching truth that lingers long after the sound fades.

What Moore has done with 'In All My Nightmares I Am Alone' is carve a body of work from the bones of experience with grief, addiction, exhaustion, and loss. And instead of hiding those fractures, he’s placed them front and centre, resulting in something uneven and jagged, but ultimately powerful.