Mari Return dispatch a quietly uncanny collection that sits somewhere between decayed songform and domestic interference. Mote of Interest was recorded in a room beside the River Ribble, where environmental influence seeps into the fabric of the album - not through literal field recordings, but in the album’s fluid pacing and sediment-like layering. Pulsing beds of tone, gated hiss, and tape-warped textures feel half-submerged, eroded. Guitar phrases stagger and repeat with hazy logic - part instinct, part accident. While fragments of voice - often heavily treated; sometimes just barely there bubble up like half-remembered conversations.

Hammered and bowed utensils, household tools, and ad hoc instrumentation were deployed not just for their texture, but to intentionally disrupt familiar compositional habits. Mote of Interest holds a sense of stability at arms length and instead leans into restraint and fragility. Enticing fans of quiet disturbances.