The trio defies musical classification, and it’s all by design. They are some of the most authentic musicians you’ll ever find

V13 Media (CA)

Tense, powerful and minimal

Take Effect (US)

Awkward, expressive, energetic and experimental

Dancing About Architecture (UK)

Like if Frank Zappa and Sonic Youth had a jam session

Higher Plain Music (UK)

A whole different listening experience exceeding all expectations. Unquestionably one of the best records you’ll hear this year

Thoughts Words Action (RS)

Every song is a gem

Underdog (DE)

A daydream holding the chaotic world in its grip

Written in Music (NL)

It breathes a kind of hidden rage and a mindset still in sync with the 80s underground

Music in Belgium (BE)

The Somnambulist could be compared, like Nick Cave, to storytellers

À Découvrir Absolument (FR)

Extending a career that is becoming increasingly rich and eloquent

Muzzart (FR)

Outside of trends and unclassifiable

Perte & Fracas (FR)

A language in constant contraction and expansion

BlowUp (IT)

A fragmented take on post-punk that incorporates noise and minimalist math rock

Rumore (IT)

So inexorably out of fashion that it turns out to be practically perfect

Rock Nation (IT)

An extraordinary freedom of writing for the most experimental pop

Suffissocore (IT)

More accessible, direct and effective while still preserving the courage, tension and sense of fracture of their previous works

Kathodik (IT)

It confuses, enchants and entraps. It wanders only apparently distracted, but yet self-aware. It slips into a maze of solutions without solution, it returns to the starting point without ever having left. It throws it all away and starts singing again. It transforms scenarios and characters. It whips, thrashes and reflects. It speaks to the masses, which as usual only listen to what they want. Then it looks away and asks for commitment and attention. That of the faithful followers of the cult. Amen

Hypermnesiac has been declared Album of the Year 2020 by MusicMap Magazine (IT), as well as one of the Top 30 Albums released in 2020 by MusicZine (BE)

Boundless creativity for an extremely meticulous outing: The Somnambulist make music that no one else could

Take Effect (US)

Hypermnesiac is impressive and doesn’t screw up a single second. An essential piece, and not only within the band’s discography 

À découvrir absolutement (FR)

An approach to composing music that is completely different than any other band

Blueprint (DE)

Hypermnesiac does not deserve to go unnoticed. The Somnambulist is an enrichment in the landscape of inimitable music

Written in Music (NL)

I’ll not dance around it: it’s their masterpiece. It’s just not a damn good record: it’s an important one. If there is a road for rock music to come back to speaking to us with its former strength, it’ll pass through records like this one

PensieroSecondario (IT)

Every song on Hypermnesiac has the ability to transform and develop its moods. Rock with a lot of meaning, fine artistry and a warm and wonderful sound 

Artnoir Musik Magazin (CH)

Adventurous music which favors tension over surprise, the roundness of sound over sudden jolts, intriguing without ever bothering. Distilling a sustained electric atmosphere with no excessive distortion or fury, it is a blazing album as we like it

Esprit Critique (BE) 

Their music is difficult to classify, since they move with equal slack in the murky waters of industrial music, jazz, art rock and new wave

Muzikalia (ES)

Songs which don’t belong to any church, right at a crossroad without indicative panels. A sound texture of great strength, such as a pictorial fresco without space limitations. It’s hard to put words on what you’re listening to

Abus Dangereux #154 (FR)

It is within conflict that this album burns, in the contrast and interrelation between people and their innermost fears. It does not grant any wish to the listeners: on the contrary it tests their limits, it pushes them to ask for more

Heart of Glass (IT)

Free of dogmatic thinking. The easy glowing offset of an idea that John Cage has been already able to translate in exciting music forms

Underdog (DE)

An album that offers us surprising moments made of multilayered music

Music in Belgium (BE)

A stunning album drowned in waters of excellence

Muzzart (FR)

An extremely precise album of such beauty which is difficult to go around

Des cendres à la cave (FR)

In the world of The Somnambulist there are no rules. Only an ingenious and sophisticated band like this could have been able to track down the most hidden congruences between the infinite and disparate influences, giving life to a surprisingly cohesive and uncompromising record

Rockit (IT)

Not a single song is like the other

MusicZine (BE)

A non-place which is a black hole of the entire Rock Music

Music Map (IT)

An all-inclusive musical dimension

Radioaktiv (IT)

Elegant but firm. Luminous on a tragic background. Fragile, meticulous but without ostentation. The songs become heady, irresistible, flow slowly yet surely in the sensory cortex, warm it up, tenderize it, hypnotize it

Perte & Fracas (FR)

All around, a sense of eerie and warm incompleteness

Rumore (IT)

Songs at a crossroads with no signposts

Foutraque (FR)

Every track is a sonic adventure to be experienced, an electric thrill, a lesson learned

W-Fenec (FR)

I’m not exaggerating by saying that Marco Bianciardi is one of the rock songwriting geniuses of the last decade

Fango Radio (IT)