Interference, Unzyme’s fifth studio album, explores the unpredictable signals of consciousness and the drive for reckless exploration that humans are hardwired with from the start. It maps themes of protective isolation, escapism, and the steep cost of a life worth living — a journey towards reconciliation on the other side of necessary and painful, but liberating endings.
The production showcases Unzyme’s signature fusion of electronic atmospherics and rock-edged energy, with dynamic shifts that mirror the album’s psychological terrain. Early tracks like “Deep in my dome” pull inward with unforgiving introspection and a cry for help, while “Cross the line in sand” erupts with raw energy in an attempt to break through internal barriers — even when the attempt is more illusory than real.
Elsewhere, Interference offers flashes of clarity, connection, and hope in altered states of mind. “Springwater” reaches toward cleansing surrender, while “The goons at my door” explodes with defiant autonomy against those who would impose their stagnant version of normalcy. The album doesn’t offer easy resolutions. It charts the non-linear territory of struggle with honesty, culminating in “Call me back from the other side” — a haunting reach across the divide between what was lost and what might still be salvaged.
“Springwater” is a case study in how co-production can transform a song’s DNA. Originally written as a ballad, the track took a sharp turn when Lasse Turunen pushed it toward hard-hitting drum’n’bass territory. The result is something that carries the emotional vulnerability of its origins while hitting with an intensity the ballad version never could — as if the act of surrender the song describes demanded more force than gentleness. And yet, the melodies stayed pretty much intact.
This is electronic music as emotional cartography, tracing the interference patterns where multiple, seemingly erratic waves of human experience collide in an unexpected, yet beautiful way.
Interference also marks a sonic shift for Unzyme. For the first time, live acoustic drums feature prominently — on “Springwater”, “Louder than the voice of reason”, “Consumed”, “The goons at my door”, and “Cross the line in sand” — grounding the electronic production in something visceral and immediate. The drums were recorded at Unzyme Proving Ground Delta, in Jyväskylä. Lasse Turunen, who co-produced the album with Joona Nuutinen, plays electric guitar across many of the tracks.
All songs were written by Joona Nuutinen, with two notable exceptions: “Cross the line in sand” is co-written by Maiju Mäki, based on her originally instrumental composition, and “The goons at my door” is the album’s most collaborative piece, with all past and present live band members — Daniel Lawrence, Ville Hoikkala, and Maiju Mäki — contributing to the writing. Mäki also plays the live drums on five of the album’s tracks.
Track listing
- Deep in my dome
- Peeking through keyholes
- Springwater
- Louder than the voice of reason
- The goons at my door
- Fix your fallacies
- Escaping the mirror
- Consumed
- Gravity pulls you to the wrong way
- Cross the line in sand
- Call me back from the other side