Post Death Soundtrack Breaks Through the Shadows with “IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE”
- Miles Coleman
- Jun 16
- 2 min read
There’s no easy way to categorize Post Death Soundtrack’s fifth full-length album IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE and that’s exactly the point. Calgary based artist Stephen Moore has never shied away from chaos but here he wields it with unsettling clarity. Across 30 sprawling tracks, some new, others exhumed and reimagined from the past, he excavates raw emotion and channels it through a potent mix of industrial noise, acoustic vulnerability, and apocalyptic fury.
The album kicks off with “Tremens” a track named after the severe withdrawal condition delirium tremens. It’s not a metaphor. Moore composed the track while going through the real thing and the result is exactly as unnerving as you'd expect. Layers of distorted vocals, mechanical percussion, and an unhinged energy place it sonically close to Nine Inch Nails or early Skinny Puppy. But this isn’t homage, it’s personal exorcism.
On the opposite end of the spectrum lies “Song for Bonzai” a delicate instrumental tribute to Moore’s late feline companion. It’s a moment of reprieve in an otherwise stormy album, graceful, melancholic, and completely unguarded. Where many artists might tuck their grief behind lyrics, Moore lets the music speak for itself. The absence of words here feels like a quiet scream.
Another standout “A Monolith Of Alarms” is arguably the thematic core of the album. With lyrics that read like a haunted call to arms, “I heard the screaming from the derelict farm / Where tongues were silent... A MONOLITH OF ALARMS” Moore delivers a searing performance that straddles the political and the personal. It's industrial poetry built on dissonance and conviction.
What’s most impressive about IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE is how it refuses to conform. It’s an album where acoustic ballads nestle beside punk tantrums, where covers of Nick Drake and Tom Waits are given new psychological weight. It feels less like a studio album and more like a document, proof of survival through trauma, addiction, and loss.
Stephen Moore has unearthed something rare here, a 30 track journey that feels entirely necessary, even in its ugliest, most broken moments. IN ALL MY NIGHTMARES I AM ALONE is not an easy listen. It is, however, an essential one.
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