Spectre Horsemen Pale With Dust’s latest EP, Hisayasu Satō Voyeurism Blues, is an atmosphere, a descent into an eerie, slow-motion dream where you’re never quite sure if you’re alone. Dripping in noir-jazz moodiness and ghostly distortion, the project hails from Misery, England (which feels too fitting), and it lingers in your psyche long after the final note. Inspired by Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Pram, and Angelo Badalamenti, this EP builds a world of uneasy beauty, where the air crackles with video static and the wind howls through unseen crypts.
The title track, ‘Hisayasu Satō Voyeurism Blues,’ kicks things off with slow, deliberate beats and a piano so heavy it feels like it’s sinking into the mist. The horns wail lazily, trailing through the reverb like lost souls. Then comes the voice—a whispery, breathy Japanese vocal that haunts. It’s as if a forgotten lullaby is being recited from behind a screen of static, pulling you deeper into this surveillance-soaked fever dream.
Then the ‘Eulogy Version’ stretches the experience even further, doubling the length and plunging the listener into an abyss of droning pipe organs and shadowy atmospherics. The whispers are still there—ghostly traces of sound floating in the background, like echoes of something you’re sure you heard but can’t quite place. It’s less of a song and more of a presence, an eight-and-a-half-minute meditation on isolation and the unseen gaze.
Hisayasu Satō Voyeurism Blues is watching, waiting, and dissolving into the ether, leaving behind only the echoes of its haunted, hypnotic sound.
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Review by: Naomi Joan