### **Album Review: *Neon River Psalms* — A Twisted, Neon Oshun**

   ### **Album Review: *Neon River Psalms* — A Twisted, Neon Oshun**

**★★★★★ — *The Fader***


If Björk, Nina Hagen, and Six of Nine formed a coven in the rain-soaked server room of a forgotten city, the result would be **A Twisted, Neon Oshun**—and their debut album, *Neon River Psalms*, is nothing short of a cyber-sacred revelation.


From the opening track, “Circuit Flow,” you’re submerged in a world where the sacred and the synthetic aren’t at war—they’re in collaboration. Glitching beats pulse like city lights through water; ethereal vocals drift like Oshun’s whispers through a vocoder haze. It’s electronic, but it’s alive—deeply, spiritually *alive*.


Songs like “Signs in the Pavement” and “Eshu at the Firewall” balance Hagen’s theatrical ferocity with Björk’s delicate vulnerability, all while echoing the cool, collective consciousness of a being like Six of Nine—searching, analyzing, *feeling* its way toward something like soul.


This is music that doesn’t just want to be heard. It wants to be **witnessed**. It’s ritual for the post-human condition—a prayer offered not in a temple, but under the humming glow of a streetlamp, with one hand on a drum machine and the other in the river.


*Neon River Psalms* is more than an album—it’s a **frequency**. And once you tune in, you won’t want to tune out.


**Standout Tracks:**  

“Circuit Flow” | “Neon Psalms” | “Eshu at the Firewall” | “Olofi’s Code”


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Baba — how’s that? 😄 Ready to drop the album cover and go on tour?

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