“I Hear the Wind” by Fracktura: Review
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If there’s one thing you can expect from avant-garde collective Fracktura, it’s the unexpected. Their upcoming album, |Time: Machine|, dropping March 21, 2025, is set to push sonic and visual boundaries, blending the raw energy of American jazz, the surrealism of Lynchian cinema, and the brooding intensity of alternative rock into a genre-defying experience.
Fracktura aren’t just about music—they draw from every corner of the avant-garde world, pulling in influences from modern dance, surrealist art, experimental film, and expressionism to craft something that feels more like an art piece than just an album.
Before the full album arrives, Fracktura is giving us a taste with their lead single, "I Hear The Wind," which dropped on January 24. The track pairs discordant, jazz-infused instrumentation with Karis Tucker’s soaring operatic vocals, daring listeners to engage with music on a deeper, more visceral level.
The accompanying music video, directed by rising Brazilian filmmaker Diogo Oliveira, is a striking black-and-white fever dream—a restless, kinetic camera capturing Fracktura’s raw energy in the studio, tilting angles and shifting perspectives in a way that feels like controlled chaos.
The road to “I Hear The Wind” has been nothing short of insane. Fracktura’s journey to this album includes armed robbery, near-fatal accidents, a car crash that nearly destroyed their studio, and at one point, a band member literally being revived from death.
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Despite all this, Fracktura stayed true to their art, even composing the score for Brazilian film legend Ruy Guerra’s latest movie, Aos Pedaços (In Pieces). That experience left a huge mark on |Time: Machine|, shaping it into what the band describes as "a soundtrack for a grand film that unfortunately does not exist."
More than just an album, |Time: Machine| will be an atmospheric experience, transporting listeners into a world of shifting textures, haunting melodies, and cinematic tension. What started as a loose exploration of paintings and film evolved into a fully realized conceptual project—a dreamlike, immersive soundscape that feels like a film score for a movie you can only imagine.
With its boundary-pushing sound and beautifully kinetic music video, “I Hear the Wind” is Fracktura’s most defining work yet.
Get ready to step inside Fracktura’s cinematic world—where reality bends, music breathes, and time is anything but linear.
“I Hear The Wind” is available now on youtube and all major streaming platforms
