Beth Zero lit the altar of alt-electronica innovation with the debut single All Fall Down

To release a debut in 2025 requires audacity, but Beth Zero enters the fray with ethereally sharp conviction in All Fall Down, an electronic post-rock apparition that feels like an essential extension of self. From the first suspended notes, the track conjures a liminal space where Mansun’s fragile lyrical proclamations float in choral reverb, while a downtempo trip-hop beat grows into a syncopated pulse that quickens the blood. Midway, the single intensifies, erupting into cultivated post-rock furore. Buzzsaw guitars slice through the falsetto refrain of “love is possession”, while percussion deathrolls beneath the soundscape and synths illuminate the waning passage like dying embers. It’s a composition that delivers grandiosity without tipping into excess; instead, holding tension in balance, it is cinematic in its architecture and emotive in its execution. For those attuned to alt-electronica’s innovation, All Fall Down could easily be considered a ritual offering to the altar of sound design. Beth Zero is the solo venture of Oxford-based musician Mark Madsen, who filters raw emotion through tech-noir imagery and a palette of atmospheric electronics intertwined with guitar-led catharsis. With All Fall Down landing as the debut on 29 August, followed closely by the Inheritor EP, Beth Zero has already […]

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