Echoed Struggle by Shird Leopart

227th solo album by Shird Leopart

"Shird Leopart’s 227th release, Echoed Struggle, feels less like a studio album and more like a document of a living ritual — a single hour captured in real time, with no second chances. Over the course of five extended improvisations, Leopart builds a slow-moving storm from a deceptively simple toolkit: electric guitar, analog drum machine, percussion synth, FM textures from a Yamaha DX21, and a single-track looper.

Each loop begins as a lone thread, but as repetitions pile up, the sound thickens, becoming a wall — not oppressive, but inevitable, like watching fog roll in until the world disappears. Melodic fragments and rhythmic patterns emerge almost accidentally, ghostlike, before dissolving back into the haze.

The result is a hypnotic intersection of post-rock’s patience, cold wave’s frostbitten melancholy, and the exploratory spirit of 70s electronic music. The analog drum pulses are skeletal yet relentless, anchoring the music as layers of guitar feedback and synth resonance swirl overhead.

Echoed Struggle is aptly named — it is both an act of persistence and an act of surrender. You can hear Leopart pushing forward, feeding the loops, letting them grow wild, until the pieces feel less played than conjured. It is music that builds its own architecture, one repetition at a time, until you are enclosed inside it.

This is not just an album — it is an hour-long apparition. Those who step into it may not emerge unchanged."

> Oblique Sounds, 2026

Hypnotic sound structures that blur the line between composition and ritual.

(He)art maker, my archive of recorded music consists of over 405 albums & 3514 tracks.

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