This is the fourth time that Tyson Dickert’s music has appeared on our blog, so I’d like to think we’ve got a handle on it. Still, the Michigan-based rock artist has a surprise or two for us.
By Graeme Smith
Since he first hit our pages with 2025’s Beneath the Stars, We Dream of Tomorrow’s Sun, we’ve noted an evolution in his sound. That album was instrumental, drawing on Pink Floyd and Radiohead as influences.
Later that year the “swaggering and hypnotic” An Endless Voyage on the Astral Sea hit our ears, then Endless saw Dickert introduce vocals into the mix.
His latest album is called Supervoid and on the surface it’s very much in the cosmic psych rock space that we’ve come to expect from him. Under that surface, though, is a whole new world to discover.
What struck me most was the heaviness below the cosmic overtones. You get it right from the beginning in opener Living on the Edge of Forever. While the track opens bombastically enough, it was the juddering sequence later that caught my attention. That classic, heavy metal sound is something I don’t think we’ve heard before from the artist.
Across the album, Dickert pushes his sound into new realms. We get nine expansive tracks including the explosive Rising with the Stars, the cinematic A Thousand Quiet Revolutions, and the urgent The End of Forgetting.
The heavy metal, Ozzy Osbourne-esque sound sits comfortably alongside the grandiose qualities of Dickert’s speculative post-rock. At times, he leaves it behind in favour of something more electronic. A Thousand Quiet Revolutions and Hold Our Heart to the Fire are both prime examples.
Album closer Cutting Deep is the biggest surprise. It provides a funky final twist, introducing a moment of new wave groove that proves an irresistible highlight.
Dickert wrote, recorded, and mixed Supervoid solo at home which gives him the opportunity to take some of these risks. They certainly pay off. The album is his most intriguing to date.
A lover of arcs, the artist has always prioritised albums over singles and is proving a master in their composition. This one is certainly one to listen to start to finish without distractions. Dickert states that it was “written to be played loud.”
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Supervoid is out now, and you can listen to it below.
