A few weeks after unveiling the ferocious single « Paroxysm » in our pages — and six years since their last full-length — the inimitable American mathcore technicians Car Bomb return with ‘Tiles Whisper Dreams’, a blistering three-track EP that compresses their undefinable, genre-warping sound into twelve minutes of precision-engineered chaos.
Short, brutal, and unmistakably theirs, it’s a concentrated blast of the controlled mayhem that has kept fans fascinated — and disoriented — for nearly 25 years.
Recorded at Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier’s Silvercord Studio in Queens, NY, ‘Tiles Whisper Dreams’ benefits from the same meticulous sonic environment that has shaped some of modern metal’s heaviest and most ambitious records. The New York quartet — Greg Kubacki (guitar), Michael Dafferner (vocals), Elliot Hoffman (drums), and Jon Modell (bass) — channel a web of influences ranging from Meshuggah’s polyrhythmic assault and Dillinger Escape Plan / Frontierer’s chaos to Gojira’s atmospheric weight and Tool’s hypnotic progressions.
The result is music that is as challenging to play as it is thrilling to hear.
Every second here is deliberate: glitching guitar “lasers,” lurching polyrhythms, guttural roars, and sudden breaths of eerie calm, all delivered with surgical accuracy. Whether it’s the warp-speed unpredictability of “Blindsides”, the sludging, djent-laced violence of “Paroxysm”, or the groovier, hypnotic churn of the title track, Tiles Whisper Dreams is a microcosm of Car Bomb’s sonic identity — feral, intricate, and impossible to pigeonhole.
Mastered by Ted Jensen and mixed by Johann Meyer, the production captures every nuance without dulling the impact. For longtime listeners, this is an exhilarating reminder of why Car Bomb remain one of metal’s most fearless experimental forces; for newcomers, it’s a daring introduction to music that is part mathematics, part demolition derby, and part fever dream. And when it’s over, one thing is certain: twelve minutes has rarely felt this intense — or this complete.
