AlternativePost-rock
10k Global · 9 October 2026
“Chuckhole” runs four minutes thirty and is the longest thing on “Iftangible”: ten pieces, thirty minutes and forty-four seconds, none of them reaching five minutes. Jesper Vervoort, who signs as Jespfur and works out of Amsterdam, puts current electronics, lo-fi grain and shoegaze guitar in the same room, and what comes out is none of the three on its own. The record is made of space, of the way sounds (voices included) bounce off each other in a room that grows and shrinks from track to track. Out 9 October on 10k Global.
The subject is housing, and not in the abstract: the record traces a life in transit between Los Angeles, Amsterdam and the Dutch town he comes from, with a housing crisis behind it. Vervoort says he became fascinated by the idea that the album was building his home. You hear it most in the titles and in how they’re set: “cleaners from Rockbottom” (one fifty-eight), “(blanket)” (two thirty-nine), “heiat,” (two five) with the comma inside the name. The single “Higher” (three twenty-five) is the most resolved piece and the best demonstration of the method: a clean electronic bed, a layer of deformed guitar on top, and the voice set at the back as though sung from the next room.
Ten tracks averaging three minutes means the record is forever introducing ideas and almost never developing them, and the second half pays for it: “sniper” and “keys after Keys” both run a flat three minutes, both are texture rather than song, and one after the other they’re indistinguishable. The typography has the same problem: the lower case, the quotation marks, the brackets and the trailing commas carry a lot of meaning that on some tracks the music doesn’t.
It’s Vervoort’s second album, after “Pedestrians of Bright Silence” (January 2024), and you can tell he comes from playing in other people’s groups: he’s a member of MIKE’s Band of the Century, the band that backed the rapper on NPR’s Tiny Desk, and he’s passed through hardcore and shoegaze. That CV explains how “bare talk” (three thirty-six) can open with the sound of a rock record and “Falcons Flight (onride)” (three nineteen) close with the sound of an electronic one without the whole thing coming apart.
Rating: 7.0/10
Text by Marçal Bonastre