Jesse Force - Like Waves Crashing
Released: July 30 For his first proper album of 2026 and the first in some years before that, experimental composer Jesse Force returns with the four track Like Waves Crashing . Now, the title gives some indication of the theme, but isn’t quite to be taken literally. What we actually get here is more like the aesthetic of waves portrayed by an exam done selection of collaged sounds. The opening track and longest of the album, “Soaking Wet” established this theme early on as we hear gentle environmental sounds to include indistinct voices, honks honking in the distance, birds chirping, and gentle clinks and rattles. But as this goes on, a foreign sound enters - a tearing and uncomfortable noise that comes in to break the tranquility with force. It waxes and wanes, growing in intensity and then receding, really solidifying the aesthetic of a wave crashing onto shore as this noise seems to crash into the normal doldrums of life. Outside of this affinity for surging noise, some ...
