Stephen Roddy

**Bandcamp New & Notable — *Leviathan* — 16 September 2023**

“Written in response to the climate crisis, ‘Leviathan’ is a brooding and beautifully unsettling batch of dark ambient songs.”

**Bandcamp New & Notable — *Darkness Visible* — 13 March 2022**

“An experimental composer from Ireland, Stephen Roddy proves equally adept at crushing soundscapes as he does mysterious melodies.”

**Research Music — *Corpus/Mimesis* — 17 July 2025**

“Electroacoustic drones, waves of noise, and psychogeographical soundscapes orbit around … spoken word narration … sublimating into an amalgam that is grandiose and voluminous yet never overbearing.”

**Cave Dweller Music — *Leviathan* — 30 December 2023**

“Stark Droned out soundscapes are carved out of computer generated reverb, that gives the disjointed and paradoxical feeling of claustrophobia in a wide open space.”

The review also contains an especially striking sequence of images: a “yawing maw of blackness,” guitar notes bleeding into distorted wailing, and a muffled echo that alters the perception of time.

**Igloo Magazine — *Leviathan* — 19 June 2025**

“Metallic and shimmering undertones permeate the drone, whose amplitude rises and falls like a sine wave—softening and swelling throughout.”

“It’s an immersive, meditative experience—one that pulls you under like a gentle tide and doesn’t let go.”