Release Date: 26 November 2025
Song Count: 12
Rating: 7.8/10
Description:
Self-described UK-based (visual) artist and "musician" Bonesaw, also known as HONESTYO, has recently released his newest album after actively dropping several singles throughout this year, and has swung with great force with his work Euphonic Rush. Now, looking into this at a surface, one may perceive this as an absurdly short collection of tracks for an album, only clocking in at around 35 minutes in total and containing full instrumental version of all six songs for exactly half of the runtime, but this, if anything makes it easy to overlook the artistic and creative integrity that this work has.
Breakbeat as a genre is quite a diverse one that can branch out into many different sounds, and in the case of Euphonic Rush, the approach taken is one that steers sharply in the direction of a digital sounding, heavily electronic and melodically more intricate style by combining modern, polished fast beats and drum samples with all kinds of electric keys, sawtooths and other sounds as well as chopped vocals and even meme-like sound effects from video games and other media. It is a one-of-a-kind flavour of electronic music nearly impossible to truly replicate for anyone else; while subgenres like digital hardcore and the like are very much a thing and being produced by many different artists out there, breakbeat specifically in such a style is relatively niche and hard to find - a shame, given how good songs from albums like these truly are.
From an initial listen, especially for the instrumentals of the actual songs, parallels can be drawn between them and their many initiating influences, particularly video game music, with their instrumentation and action-packed musical atmosphere, and this resemblance ends up playing in the tracks' favour, forming a mental connection within the listener and adding to the experience. Personal favourites amongst the individual tracks include "I'm Running", "Wait For Me" and the one at the top of the pile, "Heaven Knows".
A very fun and unique album that would most certainly appeal to many fans of electronic music if it managed to gain more recognition.
(Post-publishing note: the reason why this album is so short is because, like another work I have recently reviewed, it was initially supposed to be an EP and not a full album, which I didn't realise until after the fact. That is my mistake!)