We’ll forever eclipse
Inside the deafening sound
FLINCH, the bombastic new single from Los Angeles Siren Section (James Cumberland and John Dowling), arrives with the kind of manic energy that knocks down doors and levels walls, dragging its boots across the floor and asking if you’re coming along or planning to stand there.
FLINCH functions like a pressure valve, and pressure is the operative word here: the kind that builds behind your eyes and in your shoulders. This track carries the posture of a necessary detour, a willful sidestep from an album otherwise steeped in density and inward pull.
Siren Section’s self-coined “glitchgaze” aesthetic shows up here, sharpened and deliberate. Buzzy guitar lines hover like exposed wiring; glitch-heavy reverb smears the edges, warped textures swelling and receding. It carries the same uneasy electricity that once made industrial club music feel dangerous.
The beat barrels forward with club intent: industrial in its insistence, chemical in its glow, while a psychedelic undercurrent keeps bending the floor beneath your feet. There’s a knowing sleaze to it; the ghosts of Nine Inch Nails, PIG, and Front Line Assembly hover nearby as inherited instincts. FLINCH sounds like machines taught to lurch, sequences trained to menace. The track cleanly balances release with restraint…because the rhythm tempts bodies into motion.
That tension keeps the song tethered to the album’s broader tone; a sanctioned moment where the body gets the microphone before the mind drags everything back into theory. Sometimes the most honest response to weight is to answer with velocity; a flash of heat inside a colder framework.
“It was very consciously a ‘fuck art, let’s dance’ moment for a dark, somber concept album,” says the band. “You can’t live entirely inside sadness and abstraction without offering release.”
Listen to FLINCH below and pre-order Separation Team here.
Siren Section’s decades-long practice of merging shoegaze haze with electronic precision and experimental rock has given them economy. They know when to tighten the screws and when to let repetition do its work.
The duo’s new album Separation Team is out February 6th, 2026. Order Here
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