🎶 Between The Buried And Me
🌎 North Carolina, United States
📀 “The Blue Nowhere”
® Inside Out Music
📅 09/2025
I’ve never been the kind of listener who keeps track of how many riffs a band plays, or how many time signatures they can twist through in one song. I don’t really care about the technical side of things. What matters to me is what a record does to you. What it stirs inside, what it leaves behind when the music fades. That’s what I look for when I listen. Not perfection, not complexity, just honesty. And that’s how I listened to “The Blue Nowhere”, the new album by BETWEEN THE BURIED AND MΕ, sitting in the quiet, letting the music find its way in.
From the very first moments, I realized this record didn’t want to impress me. It wanted to take me somewhere else. There’s a kind of blue that isn’t really a color, more like a feeling, the space between sadness and peace. That’s what this album sounds like. Soft, endless, like a sky just before it rains. The notes didn’t crash down, they drifted, slowly, like memories floating to the surface. Every sound, every pause, felt like someone gently reaching out, saying, “Here, this is what it feels like to be human.”
Tommy Rogers doesn’t sing to fill the room. He sings like someone talking to you in the dark. Quietly, truthfully, almost afraid you might look away. In “Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark”, his voice trembles with the kind of honesty you can’t fake. It’s not a song about darkness. It’s a song about learning to live with it. About standing in the middle of it and realizing you don’t have to fight anymore, you just have to breathe.
As the album unfolds, it feels like wandering through a dream that keeps shifting shape. At times, you’re swept into chaos — drums like waves, guitars like storms — and then suddenly, everything falls silent, leaving just a single voice, a few soft chords, and the sound of space itself. It’s never about showing off. It’s about feeling your way through the noise and the stillness, through the light and the weight of your own thoughts. Each song feels like a doorway to a memory, something once lost, now gently returning.
And then … the title track, “The Blue Nowhere”. It doesn’t build toward anything grand. It just exists, slowly dissolving into quiet. It feels like the moment the day exhales and the world turns blue. Not sad, not joyful, just… still. You stop waiting for meaning, and you simply let it be. Like standing at the edge of the sea, watching the water move and realizing you don’t have to understand it, you only have to feel it.
When the album ended, I didn’t move. I didn’t feel excitement or closure, I felt peace. The kind of peace that comes after tears, when everything has been said without words. That’s when I understood what “The Blue Nowhere” really is. It’s not here to dazzle or demand. It’s here to remind you that beneath everything, beneath the noise and the weight of life, there’s still a heart that beats, and a soul that can still feel.
“The Blue Nowhere” is a mirror. Not a clear or bright one, but an honest one. And if you give it time, you might see something unexpected in it: YOURSELF.
★ 8,5/10
✍🏻 Flower Of Evil aka Athena Kakrida
