Siren Section sound the alarm on new album 'Separation Team'

To listen to 'Separation Team' is to sit inside a transmission mid-interference. The frequencies waver. The signal falters. And yet, meaning persists.

Siren Section, the long-running partnership of James Cumberland and John Dowling, have created something that feels both meticulous and emotionally unfiltered. The percussion often sounds like machinery reconsidering its purpose. Guitars and electronic textures ripple beneath everything, bending time and tone as it plays. But what prevents the album from drifting into abstraction is its melodic core. Even at its most fragmented, there’s always a thread you can follow.

Emotionally, the record inhabits that modern limbo of being hyper-aware, hyper-connected, and quietly exhausted. Cumberland’s vocal presence is subdued but piercing, threading vulnerability through the layered production.

And the pacing matters. Played in sequence, the album accumulates weight. The repetition becomes hypnotic, the textures begin to feel like architecture, and by the midpoint, you’re fully enveloped by its sound.

What’s remarkable is how balanced it all feels. Nothing tips too far into chaos. Nothing smooths over the tension entirely. Siren Section understand that emotional resonance lives in the in-between, in that fragile equilibrium between clarity and collapse.

'Separation Team' is a carefully assembled world, built to be inhabited rather than skimmed, and marks yet another defining moment in their ambitious careers to date.