In 2025, I featured Sehore’s Dadaist album Husfikbur and found myself enchanted by their experimental style.
By Graeme Smith
Nominally a pop-rock band, the Spanish group transcended the genre, adding in psychedelic and absurdist elements. Their new single IA very much picks up where that last project left off while evolving it at the same time.
The track is written in an unusual 5/4 signature. Not only that, the five beat patterns change, sometimes being 2+3, 3+2 or 4+1 creating the most unexpected of rhythms. It’s a deliberate choice that mirrors the instability of the song’s lyrics which reflect on artificial intelligence (Inteligencia artificial), modern technology, and our place among them.
It’s a theme that has understandably come up in a lot of the music I’ve listened to and shared recently. Sehore’s approach is to create a sense of machine-like disorientation straight from the off, reflecting how it often feels awkward finding humanity in a world where we’re not quite sure who’s human and many humans display a sad lack of it.
Discordant patterns set the early running, contrasted by soulful and pleading vocals. Layers of electric guitar pile on top of each other, desperately clinging to the eclectic drumbeat. Just as you think you’re getting a handle on things, the track abruptly and ominously ends, leaving the listener a little unsettled and eager to press play again.
Much like Husfikbur, the music sits in the space between accessibility and the Avant Garde. What has evolved is the viewpoint; what has stayed the same is the bravery to try something unexpected.
IA is the first single taken from the act’s upcoming third album and was recorded at Paco Loco Studio and mastered by Mario G. Alberni at Kadifornia.
Sehore are an award-winning band having received a silver medal for Pesadilla and bronze medal for Bla Bla Bla (Cha Cha Cha) at the Global Music Awards in 2025 so we’re not the only ones recognising their greatness. That recognition shows that the band can translate experimentation into something that connects widely. There’s no doubt in my mind that IA and their new album will be equally well-received.
If you want to keep up to date with what they’re doing, you can by following them on Spotify, Soundcloud, and YouTube. You can also check out their label, MusicHunter, at their website, and on X, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
IA is out now, and you can listen to it below.
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