Published by Alessandro Violante on September 9, 2025
We’ve talked about the multidisciplinary project Under My Feet. since its release UNRAVELLING by Ireen Amnes and Kamikaze Space Programme in 2021, which was its first “proper” release, not considering the two previous “Live On Tape” tapes, which are recordings of Under My Feet. events live sets. Since then, we’ve reviewed all its main releases, appreciating its fresh experimental approach to music and the philosophy behind it.
Our readers will now probably know how the project started ten years ago, organizing events in London and Berlin to name a few, and how, five years ago, they started releasing music on tape. In their events, they always mix music with art exhibitions, paying their personal homage to the origins of industrial music and to all those projects and collectives centered around the intersection between music, art and performance. We couldn’t agree more with it.
This year marked their 10th Anniversary and, to celebrate this milestone, they’ve organized events in Berlin, London and Copenhagen. On 5th September, on Bandcamp Friday, UMF. released its new tape release, Bleeding In Colour by Torn Relics, a duo composed by Aimee Mullen and Romek Boyer (better known for the Rommek alias), consisting of ten new songs.
Before releasing this new tape, the label released works by Katatonic Silentio, Kashaiof, Incendie, the above-mentioned release by Ireen Amnes and Kamikaze Space Programme, the 8th Anniversary compilation Farewell Notes and four issues of the Live On Tape series (Vanity Productions, Ireen Amnes, Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone). By looking at the whole UMF. catalogue, including this new release, we can’t but once again repeat how all their releases are different from each other, although having in common that sonic research spirit and that fresh experimental taste we’ve been appreciating since its early days. Many labels release experimental stuff, but most of them sound vintage and nostalgic. UMF. does it in an engaging and fresh way, truly representing one of the most experimental corners of our sonic Zeitgeist.
Strictly speaking about the release subject of this review, Bleeding In Colour by Torn Relics embodies, in its ten songs, a particularly wide part of the underground electronic music spectrum, and UMF. philosophy at its best, making it, according to us, the best UMF. release so far. We’ve learned to love their music with their previous release Burning Injustice released in 2021 by the label Instruments Of Discipline and, in this new release, we find an also more multifaceted approach to electronic music. Romek Boyer shows a notable mastery in portraying an incredible variety of dark electronics landscapes, as already shown in the extremely convincing release on Tommy Four Seven 47 label, and on the previous works as well. Aimee Mullen vocals are a fundamental trademark of Torn Relics music, alternating ritualistic and spiritual with algid electro-clash-like and angry electro-punk vocals.
This kaleidoscopic and multifaced vocal approach is counterbalanced by the astonishing variety of sonic solutions explored by Romek Boyer, ranging from ritualistic dark electronics enriched by processed electric guitars and by the warm and ritualistic vocals of Aimee (Through the Veyl); instrumental cinematic dark electronics mixed with austere and lysergic synth sounds (Corpse Flower); dark electro-punk/electro-clash-like with a strong punk attitude especially thanks to Aimee vocals (Mask of Monarchy); slower goth-tinged cold (also thanks to Aimee vocals) wavey atmospheric and cinematic outputs (Preveli Palms); instrumental cinematic enriched by classical sounds (Isle of Grain); syncopated big beat-like filled with dark electronics injections and lysergic synth lines (Porcelain Dreams, in collaboration with Necro Deathmort); another electro-punk song with a strong punk attitude, fueled by Romek vocals (Double Standards); cinematic synth lines, ethereal Aimee vocals and an extremely wide range of beats including breakbeat amen breaks (Little Deer); processed electric guitars coexisting with cinematic synth lines and martial beats counterbalanced by rain and ritualistic sounds (Bleeding In Colour); a closing song once again putting in dialogue tribal-like, naturalistic and ritualistic sounds with dark electronics;
As can be read on this analysis and, especially, as can be perceived by carefully listening to Bleeding In Colour, the last Torn Relics effort is a masterpiece of dark underground electronic music, showcasing the incredible versatility and the huge skills of these two very talented artists. In case you still don’t know about Under My Feet., this is a great chance to discover their whole catalogue. In case you don’t know Torn Relics, that’s the best way to start listening to their music.
Label: Under My Feet.
Rating: 10