Desert So Green
by Winged Wheel

Album Rating: 71.99
(647.9/9)

Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Desert So Green

09.01.26

Desert So Green slithers out of the speakers like a damp sock someone left on a shrine in Mount Koya — patient, eerie, and vaguely accusing you of all your life choices. Winged Wheel don’t do warmth; they do frostbite with a hint of incense. Each track ambles along with motorik precision, synth clouds hovering like guilty confessions, occasionally breaking into a melody that feels almost human before retracting like a withdrawn hand. Listening to this is like being stuck in a monastery corridor at 3 a.m., eavesdropping on monks arguing about something only they understand, while you quietly consider if enlightenment is worth the claustrophobia.

Some tracks sparkle with fragile beauty — “Beautiful Holy Jewel Home” wavers like candlelight in a mausoleum, “Canvas 11” opens with hypnotic insistence, and “The Suite Goes Quiet” lingers like a spectre brushing past your shoulder. Others, like “Speed Table” and “More Frog Poems,” twist and grind through fogged psychedelia, giving the impression that the album wants to both elevate and unsettle you simultaneously. It’s not comforting, it’s not easy, but it’s defiantly strange, rewarding those willing to sit with its stubborn, murky genius. Listening to Desert So Green is like staring at a love letter from a ghost: unsettling, bittersweet, and entirely unforgettable.

1. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Canvas 11 77.2
2. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Canvas 2 72.3
3. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Speed Table 70.5
4. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – More Frog Poems 70.3
5. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Beautiful Holy Jewel Home 72.3
6. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Canvas 8 70.7
7. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Bird Spells 70.6
8. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – I See Poseurs Every Day 71.9
9. Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – The Suite Goes Quiet 72.2

Ranked in order of preference:

* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Canvas 11 77.2
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Beautiful Holy Jewel Home 72.3
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – The Suite Goes Quiet 72.2
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Canvas 2 72.3
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – I See Poseurs Every Day 71.9
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Canvas 8 70.7
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Bird Spells 70.6
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – Speed Table 70.5
* Winged Wheel (DSG – USA – Jan 26) – More Frog Poems 70.3