Some albums become places. Tumbling Towards a Wall is one of them.

I don’t remember how I found it (maybe it found me). But from the moment New Poem began, something settled in. The sound drifted in like mist across a quiet field, or the hush before morning fully wakes. There are no vocals to guide you, only soft pulses, clouds of rhythm, and textures so delicate they seem to breathe. It’s ambient, full of presence and texture.

I’ve spent hours writing code blurred into this record. It felt made for still moments when your hands are moving but your mind is somewhere deeper. There’s always a pulse that guides, but nothing pulls too hard. It’s music for slipping beneath the surface.

Leaves and Wish is where I truly fell in. A soft kick carries the track forward, steady and submerged, like hearing a drum echo through an alleyway. The mix is shaped by breath itself, rising and falling with gentle sidechain that never calls for too much attention. Instead, it pulls you along gently, like sunlight filtered through old fabric. It’s the kind of loop you never want to end.

The middle of the album shifts shape. Rhythms become more present, more tactile. Textures come and go like static caught on a breeze. Beats fold into each other. There are moments where everything phases, where time bends slightly, where the mix feels less like a song and more like a living system of sound.

Stunned Suddenly is exactly what it sounds like. It evokes the dizzy feeling of losing equilibrium, as though gravity changed its mind. It’s a moment suspended in vibration, where sound mirrors itself endlessly. Listening feels like standing still while the world pulses around you.

But for me, the heart of the album is Smile. Warmth radiates here. The sound cascades and recedes like a seche in a warm pool of thick fluid. It pulses, throbs, breathes. There’s a rhythm you can follow, but it doesn’t lead. It just is.

This whole album feels like what stillness sounds like. Silent stillness, the sense of time stretching, of breath held and released, of being fully present. It’s music that doesn’t demand anything from you. It simply allows.

And I let it. Over and over.