Description
2026, 12″ LP, Dark Entries.
Group Rhoda is the solo project of Oakland, California artist Mara Barenbaum and she’s been active since 2009, dropping four albums on Dark Entries so far. Now she sharpens the songwriting blade on Phase 5, a sleek, shape-shifting synth LP that refuses to sit still as Mara blurs art-pop, darkwave, dub and electro into something fluid and hypnotic. Tracks mutate mid-stride: ‘Field Tone’ slips from ominous and spooky synths into space-disco seduction, while ‘Dragon Pine’ ricochets between cosmic dub and cybernetic dancehall. Nothing is fixed as lyrically and sonically, Phase 5 lives in the in-between where nature and machine, dream and reality collapse into one. A cerebral work that thrives on tension and nocturnal energy.
