Phantom Wave — Echoes Unknown
Released October 17, 2025 — Brooklyn, New York
Genre: Dream Pop / Indie Rock / Post-Rock / Psychedelic Shoegaze
Emerging from the heart of Brooklyn’s vibrant alternative scene, Phantom Wave returns with Echoes Unknown, an album that captures the exhilarating tension between propulsion and serenity — between movement and stillness. The band has always lived in that delicate space where distortion meets melody, and here they refine it into something transcendent.
Built on the songwriting of Ian Carpenter, with Rachel Fischer and Yanek Che completing the trio’s magnetic chemistry, Phantom Wave creates a sound that feels at once familiar and otherworldly. Blending the lush haze of classic shoegaze with the expansiveness of post-rock and the pulse of modern indie, Echoes Unknown is a work of immense atmosphere and emotional depth.
Recorded at The Building in Marlboro, NY with engineer Ryan Dieringer, and later mixed by Elliott Frazier (of Ringo Deathstarr) and mastered by Adrian Morgan at Timeless Mastering, the album radiates both clarity and chaos. Every note feels alive — guitars shimmer like sunlight on water, drums crash with cinematic precision, and basslines hum beneath the surface like an undercurrent of restless energy.
Lyrically, Echoes Unknown reflects on disconnection, memory, and the thin veil between the tangible and the imagined. Carpenter’s words drift through the haze like fragments of thought — personal yet abstract, grounded yet cosmic. The band’s sound mirrors this duality: walls of reverb and distortion that somehow manage to feel intimate, like being lost in a dream you don’t want to wake from.
What makes Phantom Wave stand apart is their mastery of contrast. Their music surges with percussive drive yet breathes with a radiant calm. It’s a sonic landscape where every texture — from the bite of a fuzz pedal to the shimmer of a cymbal — contributes to a sense of momentum that never feels rushed. Each track builds and collapses like a tide, inviting listeners to lose themselves in its shifting patterns.
With Echoes Unknown, Phantom Wave push the boundaries of modern shoegaze into cinematic territory. It’s an album that invites immersion — best experienced loud, in the half-light, where its layers of sound can wash over you completely.
Expansive, textured, and emotionally luminous, “Echoes Unknown” is Phantom Wave at their most confident — a masterful exploration of beauty within noise.
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