Release Date: 22 January 2026
Song Count: 13
Duration: 1 hour, 17 minutes, 18 seconds
Rating: 4.8/10
Description:
A double whammy - another extremely recent release and the return of an artist I've featured on the site before, back in November. Not long after his previous album, Lynn Standafer has returned with a longer record featuring a bunch of remixes, re-releases and plenty of entirely original music in his tried and true style, bringing us Unquiet two days ago. According to the mastermind himself, a lot of the general artistic direction behind this new set of songs comes from his time spent living in Northern Europe for a while and the experiences he has faced, leading to emotional cores going even deeper than any previous Enduser works - already a particularly high bar to clear, given their track record.
The sound of these new tracks remains largely consistent to the pre-established formula of Enduser's music: fast beats that largely avoid deviation to make the times new percussion elements are introduced extra ear-catching, atop long and stretchy melodic synths to carry along an atmospheric energy. Though the outlines of breakcore are still traceable here, the sound actually leans more towards flavours of IDM and drum & bass more than they ever have been, providing a more varied mix to get the intended meanings and musical depictions across. Also in classic fashion of the Cincinnati artist, the songs do anything but shying away from looping and stretching, once again all clocking in at 5 minutes at the minimum, and primarily continue very subtly building up on immediately introduced grooves and themes in the music.
Though I spoke positively on the extended time the tracks took up in the case of Fallen Night, this kind of practice of track length extension is one that is bound to crash-land in particular works, and unfortunately, Unquiet almost certainly falls into this category. Perhaps partially due to the far larger number of songs included in the album, the tracks being this long, alongside the lack of variety provided between the main instrumental assets, does end up creating a sort-of dragging feeling when listening in full. Even with Standafer's specific subtype of extreme electronic music being far more digestible for a crowd not as infatuated with breakcore and the like, Unquiet largely ends up tiring the listener out after an alarmingly not long time of listening. Maybe not a full-on skip-worthy record overall, but just sticking to a few of the most interesting songs, such as "Street Lamp", "Unreal", "Looking Out" and "To Address", will largely suffice to get the most out of experiencing this one.