Impossible Light - Uboa: Review
Review by Lavender: Uboa is the noise project of Australian artist Xandra Metcalfe whose music has often attacked gender dysphoria and the machinations of being trans both in society and in your own mind through blistering noise music. That formula reached its apex on the 2019 album The Origin Of My Depression one of the rawest and most uncompromising portrayals of gender dysphoria, depression, and self-doubt I've ever heard. I poured out love for the album when it dropped and did the same thing the following year with the EP that followed it up. I've been highly anticipating whatever Uboa did next ever since, which is why the surprise dropping of Impossible Light was such an overwhelming delight. In the promotional material for this record, Uboa painted its whims in surprisingly optimistic language. But even though the album is ultimately about seeing a path forward, that doesn't mean the journey it takes to get there is easy. Opener Phthalates is a brooding sta...