Jupiter
Rival Consoles is part of a small but decisive vanguard reshaping the trajectory of electronic music. With his new album “Jupiter” he distances himself from the weight of legacy genres, especially IDM, a label that once meant innovation but for too long has been trapped in a 1990s nostalgia loop. Alongside artists like Barker, Rival Consoles is not just updating the form; he’s quietly dismantling it. “Jupiter” doesn’t aim to impress with complexity or retro reference points. Instead, it inhabits a space where form follows feeling, where structure seems to emerge from within rather than being imposed by beat grids or genre expectations. It’s not ambient, not techno, not IDM, and yet somehow recalls all of them without mimicking any. This is what makes Rival Consoles such a vital voice: his work understands that post-internet listeners don’t need a genre to feel something. They want immersion, disorientation, architecture, and breath. What’s quietly radical here is the shift from the dancefloor to something more internal, not just headphone music, but physical in its own right, built for bodies that aren’t necessarily moving but are very much alive. It’s a reminder that electronic music no longer has to be defined by clubs, scenes, or BPMs. It can be a solitary landscape, a collective hallucination, or both at once.