GENN – Reverberations (Liminal Collective)
Launching their first new music since their 2023 debut album GENN has shared a 7 minute alt-rock opus in single Reverberations.
Artist: GENN
Track: Reverberations
Released: 30 October 2025
Label: Liminal Collective
Find it: Bandcamp
In this era of limited attention spans Anglo-Maltese sisterhood GENN has taken a bold stance with the release of their new single Reverberations. Their first new music since their 2023 debut album unum, it clocks in at nearly 7 minutes long and you’ll be gripped from first note to last.
There is a boom and echo in the rhythm, a beckoning in the bass line, and guitar lines which spin out as the vocal pierces and then soothes. A dreamlike quality flows through the track; you’re compelled onwards with it and yet can’t quite grasp the gossamer threads of melody wrapping around you. Before you know it you’re deliciously and fully sunk into the depths of this track.
With sharper guitar against the rolling rhythm from the 4 minute mark it is with the epic inevitable timelessness of being within a myth that you are carried forth. This is alternative with a wisp of psychedelia. There is nothing indulgent in the long outro but rather it feels like something to be savoured. It is other worldly and yet not at all: it is GENN’s truth. This is the continuation of the revolution this band represents and it is their evolution too: powerful, evocative, and just ever so good.
‘Burying what hinders, the barefoot sun / Reminiscent Shadows, the bloodshot moon’
Guitarist Janelle Borg said, “In an era where people from migrant backgrounds have their culture and their music appropriated – but then discarded or even targeted – and in a socio-political climate that’s far from kind to people who look like us, we’re here to embrace what makes us different. We’re here to share it with the world – and stand on stage and have our voices, our music, our culture and the core of who we are represented without fear.”
Working with producer Johnny Hostile (Savages / Jehnny Beth) they describe the collaboration as beginning with, “a mutual sense of respect and admiration, and immediately paid dividends with Hostile deftly accentuating the band’s idiosyncratic sound. A sound that shifts between calcified categories (touching upon alternative rock, post-punk and psychedelia) and has been celebrated for its negotiation of both technology and tradition.”
Reverberations by GENN is out now digitally.
Find GENN: Website | Facebook | Instagram | Bandcamp
Live dates:
- 31 October – The Camden Assembly, London
- 4 February – The New Adelphi Club, Hull
- 5 February – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
- 6 February – Zerox, Newcastle
- 7 February – YES Basement, Manchester
- 26 February – The Shacklewell Arms, London
- 27 February – ALPHABET, Brighton
- 28 February – The Lanes, Bristol
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Sarah Lay
A long-standing music journalist she's also co-founder of independent record label Reckless Yes, an author of novels, and when not messing around with words and music, a digital strategist.
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