Haunting and deeply hypnotic, Nezovyl is a release by Molto Ohm, the project of Italian-born, Brooklyn-based composer Matteo Liberatore, and it immediately pulled me into its tense, inward-facing world. Featuring the psych-pop project Tanners and guitarist Aditya Chatterjee, the track appears as the eighth entry on Molto Ohm’s upcoming second full-length album Reality Pills, due out in February 2026. From the first moments, it feels clear that this isn’t just a standalone single, it’s a piece of a larger emotional and conceptual puzzle, one concerned with alienation, overstimulation, and the quiet dread of modern life.
Sonically, Nezovyl feels like reality viewed through warped glass. Nothing here is bright or comforting in the traditional sense. The melodies are restrained and repetitive, looping with an almost obsessive quality, creating a sense of mental enclosure rather than expansion. The textures grow progressively murkier and heavier, with low-end synths pulsing uneasily beneath the surface and effects that feel more disorienting than dreamy. Instead of offering escape, the sound design presses inward, surrounding you, making the listening experience feel tight, claustrophobic, and strangely intimate.
The rhythm plays a crucial role in sustaining that tension. The beat never fully erupts, but it also never lets go. It moves forward with an anxious steadiness, like a racing thought you can’t interrupt. That constant forward motion gave me the sense of being carried along by something I didn’t entirely choose, which mirrored the emotional core of the song in a way that felt unsettlingly familiar. It’s danceable, but not carefree; your body might move, but your mind stays alert, uneasy, and questioning.
Emotionally and lyrically, Nezovyl sits with discomfort rather than trying to resolve it. There’s a persistent sense of introspection and paranoia, thoughts circling endlessly without conclusion. It reminded me of those moments when you’re alone with your own mind late at night, aware of how deeply entangled desire, anxiety, and consumption have become, yet unsure how to untangle them. The song doesn’t spell things out; instead, it invites you to sit inside that confusion and recognize it as something shared.
Liberatore describes the track as follows: “a lost soul caught in the folds and temptations of a society that fabricates our dreams and asks us to follow them,” and that idea resonates strongly throughout. The tension between consumerist illusion and the longing for genuine connection is present in every layer of the song. What makes Nezovyl so effective is that it doesn’t moralize or offer clarity; it simply reflects that conflict back at you, unresolved and uncomfortably honest.
By the time the track ended, I didn’t feel any sense of release, and that absence felt intentional. Instead, there was a lingering stillness, like coming up for air after holding your breath longer than you realized. Nezovyl isn’t meant to soothe; it’s meant to stay with you. As a preview of Reality Pills, it suggests an album willing to confront anxiety, commodification, and emotional fragmentation head-on, without softening their impact. This is psych-pop that trusts tension, embraces murkiness, and understands that sometimes the most honest thing music can do is reflect the unease we’re all quietly carrying.
Written by Joshua Cotrim
