Vexillary – Digital Suspiria (Digital Album – Con:trace)
Vexillary – Digital Suspiria
New Yorker Reza Seirafi returns with a new album, drawing inspiration from themes of spiritual recursion, emotional circuits, and machine worship. These concepts are distilled into a nine-track release.
Seirafi continues to blend a wide range of influences; he throws everything into the mix, yet the individual elements remain clearly recognizable, spanning Techno, Electro-Pop, Trance, Ethereal, and a darker touch of EBM. With Vexillary, genre boundaries and trends seem largely irrelevant—his work appears driven instead by spontaneity and an abundance of ideas. The result is highly danceable, propelled by solid beats, while also embracing a sensual, ethereal quality when the enchanting female vocals come to the fore.
There is much to appreciate on this record, though my personal preference leans toward its darker moments. (Rating:8).
Listen to “Riptide”:
About Vexillary
Vexillary is the project of New York-based producer Reza Seirafi. The sound mixes Techno, Cold-Wave, EBM, Electroclash and Industrial, and moved toward more song-driven, vocal-led material across its later albums.
After an early run of EPs, Seirafi released the debut album “Into Full Frontal Lunacy” in 2021, followed by “Crash And Yearn” on Con:trace in 2022. Side-Line covered that record in a 2022 interview with Vexillary.
“Digital Suspiria” was released on March 20, 2026 through Con:trace and runs to nine tracks, including “Riptide”. It is the release reviewed here.
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