As you may know by this stage, 909originals is a big fan of San Francisco imprint Dark Entries – check out our interview with founder Josh Cheon here – and the label is kicking off its 2026 schedule with an album by electronic artist Group Rhoda.
The album, Phase 5, is set to land on 13 February, and is the fifth full-length work by Group Rhoda, aka producer Mara Barenbaum.
Barenbaum has recorded under the Group Rhoda name for more than a decade, and her latest release sees her ‘perpetually in-between states, deftly shifting form at the blink of an eye’, according to a press release – from the John Carpenter-esque Field Tone, which opens the album, to the shifting darkwave of Aeolian Crossing, the album’s closer.
‘Lines between fairytale and fact, between nature and art, between subject and object all dissolve under contemplation,’ as the release put it.
The cover artwork for the album, by Shawn Reed, features lilies and refracted light as its central visual elements.
Alongside its release on Dark Entries, the digital version of Phase 5 will be released via Katabatik, a label that Barenbaum has had close ties to for the past decade.
Group Rhoda – Phase 5 is released on Dark Entries on 13 February.
Tracklisting
01 – Field Tone
02 –Dragon Pine
03 – Formless
04 – White Fur
05 – Sunseer
06 – Aeolian Crossing
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