Mutual Shock Announces Debut Full-Length Album ‘Nervous Systems’
Seattle-based musician Dan Powers, known for his darkly evocative solo project Mutual Shock, has released his highly anticipated debut album, Nervous Systems, on May 30, 2025, represented by Decent Music PR. Building on the critical foundation laid by 2024’s debut EP Stimulus Progression, the new full-length offering dives even deeper into the brooding sonic and emotional terrain that defines Mutual Shock’s distinct voice.
Fusing synthpop allure with cold wave’s stark intensity, Nervous Systems is a ten-track exploration of alienation, societal decay, and the disquiet that festers beneath modern life. Powers masterfully blends lush analog textures with rhythmic minimalism, drawing inspiration from the grayscale melancholy of Black Marble and Molchat Doma, and the industrial grit of Nine Inch Nails and Cabaret Voltaire. The result is an album that resonates with the introspective drama of Drab Majesty, the haunting momentum of Boy Harsher, and the genre-defining pulse of New Order and Depeche Mode.
Lyrically and thematically, Nervous Systems confronts the numbing qualities of contemporary work culture, feelings of disconnection, and the creeping erosion of meaning in a hypermediated world. It's an album born from isolation and introspection—a mirror held up to both personal unease and collective anxieties.
“Nervous Systems is about navigating the slow erosion of self under late capitalism,” says Powers. “It's about doubt, unease, and trying to make sense of a world that often feels dehumanizing and disconnected.”
Singles "Destroyer," "Body Together", and "Bore Me" precede the album's release, showcasing the album's darker, more urgent textures that blur the lines between post-punk, darkwave, and electronic minimalism.
With Nervous Systems, Mutual Shock delivers a sound both timeless and timely—an evocative soundtrack for our increasingly fractured present.
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WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING…
Delivers a pulsating, industrial dark wave sound - Elektrospank
A dark wave statement full of energy - Electro Zombies
The listening experience rather striking and hard-hitting, perhaps unforgettable. - Mesmerized
Dark synthwave tones are to the fore - Analogue Trash
Fans of early Depeche Mode will find comfort in its cold glow and haunted beauty - Last Day Deaf
A beautiful piece of unsettling surrealism - Post Punk
