‘Alienation’ is the debut studio album by Seattle-based genre bending trio Naked Society. The album takes its listener on a journey through desolation and defiance.
The band formed in 2021 and have been writing and releasing for the past few years with ‘Alienation’ being the cherry on top of their musical catalogue. Blending indie pop, rock, art rock, and shoegaze sounds into one synth- and eccentric soundscape-driven tracks. The album contains nine tracks with a strong and slowly building intro and a fanatic closing statement in ‘Digital Dust’.
In-between those we struggle with anxiety and deal with it through hammering synths and thumping soundscapes, crooning vocals and delicious guitar licks. ‘Alienation’ holds a mirror to a world teetering on the edge, Naked Society use their music to process and push back against isolation, personal dissonance, and societal strain. They do so through slow burning tracks, ‘Anxiety’ offering hints of colour and swaying paths through crowded forests. A slowly driving alternative pop track in ‘S.A.Y.’ gets followed by more hazy pop sounds on ‘Burning Prairie’.
Slick guitar lines and an overall intriguing sound enter the mix on ‘Crumbling’, and gets followed by a collaboration with PROFiTSEA. On this track we hear spoken vocals and the influences taken from hip hop, while ‘Halide’ returns to what the album offered us before ‘Total Recall’. These elasticated and vibrant soundscapes are what makes ‘Alienation’ stand out to us, the album listens like a book you simply can’t put down. The album is an act of introspection and resistance and a reminder that amidst the fractures, there’s music to help us face and even transcend the alienation within and around us.
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