2025 ALBUM RELEASED!
Love, Resentment & Mortality
Listen to the full album on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/IKgYvphe31M?si=3_ID5lMjH43_yeVZ
Streaming Distributors:
https://artists.landr.com/056870476551
or get it here!:
https://pokeabrain.com/album/3432548/love-resentment-mortality
Album Reviews!
Read the full reviews on each site (only one paragraph copied over)
TheMusicalRoad.net
https://www.themusicalroad.net/blog/april2025/poke-a-brain
"This album was created by a person who has a profound understanding of music and isn't scared to question norms and explore vulnerability. A genuine work of love and a tribute to a lifetime devoted to the craft of sound, Poke A Brain has created an experience that speaks not only acoustically but also spiritually. The emotionally intense and captivating trip of “Love, Resentment & Mortality” is one that is definitely worth pursuing."
ThoughtsWordsAction.com
https://thoughtswordsaction.com/2025/04/04/poke-a-brain-love-resentment-mortality/
“Love, Resentment & Mortality” is a comprehensive collection consisting of eleven marvelous, collaborative tracks that will immediately appeal to all those music enthusiasts looking for cleverly assembled and flawlessly performed music. Lyrically, this album explores themes of love, relationships, various sentiments, moods, situations, and circumstances, so it’s a highly relatable material that will immediately resonate with the broader auditorium. Poke A Brain employs a poetic, storytelling lyricism in exploring these themes, so his lyrics immediately tackle all the senses. Soundwise, “Love, Resentment & Mortality” carries an entire amalgam of different but complementary music genres. Perhaps classic rock comes to mind first, but you’ll unquestionably notice how some of the finest properties borrowed from alternative, grunge, blues, soul, jazz, and other similar styles found their way into this sonic equation.”
PitchPerfect.com
https://www.pitchperfectsite.com/indie-music-album-reviews/poke-a-brain-love-resentment-mortality
“Poke A Brain’s Love, Resentment & Mortality is as sprawling and unfiltered as its title suggests—a patchwork of genres and moods that isn’t afraid to bounce between indie rock nostalgia, bluesy grit, and reggae-tinged detours. Across eleven tracks, the band leans into their wide-ranging influences with a kind of scrappy confidence, resulting in an album that feels more like a mixtape from a friend with good taste than a tightly curated statement. But that looseness works in their favor.”
BuzzSlayers.com
https://www.buzzslayers.com/post/a-new-album-from-poke-a-brain
“On Love, Resentment & Mortality, Poke A Brain set their sights high. Mortality and resentment aren’t exactly bite-sized themes, but the band moves through them with a scrappy, restless energy across eleven tracks that veer from swampy blues to garage-punk bruisers to smoky ballads. It's a record that feels alive in its unpredictability, stitched together by an off-kilter charisma that sometimes recalls the genre-hopping spirit of Ween.”
RagTalent.com
https://www.ragtalent.com/post/poke-a-brain
“On Love, Resentment & Mortality, Poke a Brain offer a scrappy, rough-edged take on rock that isn't afraid to spill over into stranger, more restless territories. The production leans lo-fi but suits the material: there’s a palpable live-wire energy that makes the album feel less like a studio project and more like a barely-contained performance. The songwriting is solid across the board, though a few moments manage to claw their way even closer to something great.”
TeethSound.com
https://www.teethsound.com/2025/04/poke-a-brain-s-album-love-resentment-mortality-a-genre-spanning-meditation-on-the-human-condition.html
“As the title suggests, Love, Resentment & Mortality wrestles with life’s weightiest themes. It’s music for those who want more than a catchy hook; it’s for listeners craving meaning, catharsis, and sonic craftsmanship. Poke A Brain doesn’t just play music; they sculpt it into something lasting. This is an album that doesn’t just echo influences, it reinvents them.”
Previous Featured Track
For your listening pleasure: ‘Reggae One’… A present day of prophetic expression in a confounded world…! or just a fusion of Rock & Reggae! :)
Want to open the song on your favorite player? Please select your favorite Music Service here!
First song released for upcoming album: “Love, Resentment & Mortality”!!!
Open the song with your preferred streaming music app or watch the video on the left! :)
- Apple Music
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‘Reggae One’ - A mix of Rock with sprinkles of Reggae and Grunge :)
“Reggae One” reviews. Please follow their links for their full article (Only first paragraph was copied over). Thanks!
Poke A Brain’s latest single, “Reggae One,” delivers exactly what it promises, but it’s far from a straightforward genre exercise. While rooted in reggae rhythms, the track ventures into experimental territory, offering a trajectory that twists and turns in unexpected ways.
https://www.buzzslayers.com/post/poke-a-brain