Horizont

Regina Collage's Horizont is bedroom pop from Bristol by way of Kharkiv, Ukraine, an underground signal pulled through borrowed studios, bass wire, guitar scraps and an exposed voice that refuses the soft-focus exit. The standout is "Vpiznavaty", where the thing gets brutally plain: post-punk bass walking in the dark, voice close enough to fog the glass, carrying that same severe spell as Carla Dal Forno's "I'm Going Out" - minimal, unshowy, completely possessed. Elsewhere the songs sag into cloudy dissonance and tender shame, like a bedsit radio developing border-static homesickness. The title's horizon sits there as a cruel line, never arriving, sky and earth withholding contact. Horizont hurts because it stays open.