Berkeley Pit make Phase Transition sound like Seattle changing states under pressure

Berkeley Pit’s Phase Transition arrives on 23 June from Seattle with a title that already gives the record a useful scientific mood. A phase transition is the moment matter changes state, and that is a strong image for experimental indie rock: solid becoming liquid, pressure becoming motion, structure becoming something less predictable. The Bandcamp tags place the album around alternative beats, experimental, indie rock and rock, which suggests a release interested in rhythmic texture as much as guitar language. Seattle’s independent music history is long enough that any new project has plenty of ghosts to ignore or argue with, but Phase Transition sounds like it wants a more personal laboratory. This is not just rock as genre habit. It is rock as material being heated, cooled and tested until the shape starts to shift.

Source: https://berkeleypit.bandcamp.com/album/phase-transition