Unmade In Minutes
Pastel Blank
Unmade in Minutes is the debut full-length album by Montréal-based art-rock project Pastel Blank, released on April 24, 2026, via Paper Bag Records. The project is led by songwriter and vocalist Angus Watt alongside a rotating cast of collaborators — including drummer and co-contributor Hanum Yoon-Henderson and sound designer Brennan Doyle — and represents a significant step forward from their 2022 self-titled release. The album's title is drawn from a lyric in the track "Radiator," the first song Watt wrote for the record, composed in the early weeks of the COVID lockdown in March 2020 after moving into a new apartment and setting up a small home studio. As Watt explained to The Big Takeover, the record is "largely about loss of control, and giving up our positions as the writer and becoming recipients of action guided by outside forces" — exploring how our environments, addictions, and outside systems shape behavior in ways that undermine our sense of agency as authors of our own lives.
Across its nine tracks, Unmade in Minutes blends angular post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, wiry funk rhythms, and psychedelic textures into a sound that critics have likened to Fear of Music-era Talking Heads. The album's first three tracks — "Sweet Nic," "Dopamine," and "Shareholder" — form a thematic triptych circling addiction and control, with "Shareholder" functioning as a pointed satire of the pharmaceutical industry and the opioid epidemic, and "Dopamine" pairing infectious funk grooves with socially-conscious commentary. Blurred Culture describes Watt's approach as "turning modern neuroses into something strangely catchy, wrapping sharp observations about everyday life inside wiry post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, and an off-kilter sense of fun," while Playdate Media calls it "a refreshing blend of art-rock and funk that tantalizes with its hypnotic, colorful songwriting." The album closes with the sprawling "Pale White Prince - Never Seen the Waters," capping a record that announces Pastel Blank as one of the more distinctive voices in Montréal's thriving indie scene.
Unmade in Minutes is the debut full-length album by Montréal-based art-rock project Pastel Blank, released on April 24, 2026, via Paper Bag Records. The project is led by songwriter and vocalist Angus Watt alongside a rotating cast of collaborators — including drummer and co-contributor Hanum Yoon-Henderson and sound designer Brennan Doyle — and represents a significant step forward from their 2022 self-titled release. The album's title is drawn from a lyric in the track "Radiator," the first song Watt wrote for the record, composed in the early weeks of the COVID lockdown in March 2020 after moving into a new apartment and setting up a small home studio. As Watt explained to The Big Takeover, the record is "largely about loss of control, and giving up our positions as the writer and becoming recipients of action guided by outside forces" — exploring how our environments, addictions, and outside systems shape behavior in ways that undermine our sense of agency as authors of our own lives.
Across its nine tracks, Unmade in Minutes blends angular post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, wiry funk rhythms, and psychedelic textures into a sound that critics have likened to Fear of Music-era Talking Heads. The album's first three tracks — "Sweet Nic," "Dopamine," and "Shareholder" — form a thematic triptych circling addiction and control, with "Shareholder" functioning as a pointed satire of the pharmaceutical industry and the opioid epidemic, and "Dopamine" pairing infectious funk grooves with socially-conscious commentary. Blurred Culture describes Watt's approach as "turning modern neuroses into something strangely catchy, wrapping sharp observations about everyday life inside wiry post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, and an off-kilter sense of fun," while Playdate Media calls it "a refreshing blend of art-rock and funk that tantalizes with its hypnotic, colorful songwriting." The album closes with the sprawling "Pale White Prince - Never Seen the Waters," capping a record that announces Pastel Blank as one of the more distinctive voices in Montréal's thriving indie scene.
Unmade In Minutes
Pastel Blank
Unmade in Minutes is the debut full-length album by Montréal-based art-rock project Pastel Blank, released on April 24, 2026, via Paper Bag Records. The project is led by songwriter and vocalist Angus Watt alongside a rotating cast of collaborators — including drummer and co-contributor Hanum Yoon-Henderson and sound designer Brennan Doyle — and represents a significant step forward from their 2022 self-titled release. The album's title is drawn from a lyric in the track "Radiator," the first song Watt wrote for the record, composed in the early weeks of the COVID lockdown in March 2020 after moving into a new apartment and setting up a small home studio. As Watt explained to The Big Takeover, the record is "largely about loss of control, and giving up our positions as the writer and becoming recipients of action guided by outside forces" — exploring how our environments, addictions, and outside systems shape behavior in ways that undermine our sense of agency as authors of our own lives.
Across its nine tracks, Unmade in Minutes blends angular post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, wiry funk rhythms, and psychedelic textures into a sound that critics have likened to Fear of Music-era Talking Heads. The album's first three tracks — "Sweet Nic," "Dopamine," and "Shareholder" — form a thematic triptych circling addiction and control, with "Shareholder" functioning as a pointed satire of the pharmaceutical industry and the opioid epidemic, and "Dopamine" pairing infectious funk grooves with socially-conscious commentary. Blurred Culture describes Watt's approach as "turning modern neuroses into something strangely catchy, wrapping sharp observations about everyday life inside wiry post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, and an off-kilter sense of fun," while Playdate Media calls it "a refreshing blend of art-rock and funk that tantalizes with its hypnotic, colorful songwriting." The album closes with the sprawling "Pale White Prince - Never Seen the Waters," capping a record that announces Pastel Blank as one of the more distinctive voices in Montréal's thriving indie scene.
Unmade in Minutes is the debut full-length album by Montréal-based art-rock project Pastel Blank, released on April 24, 2026, via Paper Bag Records. The project is led by songwriter and vocalist Angus Watt alongside a rotating cast of collaborators — including drummer and co-contributor Hanum Yoon-Henderson and sound designer Brennan Doyle — and represents a significant step forward from their 2022 self-titled release. The album's title is drawn from a lyric in the track "Radiator," the first song Watt wrote for the record, composed in the early weeks of the COVID lockdown in March 2020 after moving into a new apartment and setting up a small home studio. As Watt explained to The Big Takeover, the record is "largely about loss of control, and giving up our positions as the writer and becoming recipients of action guided by outside forces" — exploring how our environments, addictions, and outside systems shape behavior in ways that undermine our sense of agency as authors of our own lives.
Across its nine tracks, Unmade in Minutes blends angular post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, wiry funk rhythms, and psychedelic textures into a sound that critics have likened to Fear of Music-era Talking Heads. The album's first three tracks — "Sweet Nic," "Dopamine," and "Shareholder" — form a thematic triptych circling addiction and control, with "Shareholder" functioning as a pointed satire of the pharmaceutical industry and the opioid epidemic, and "Dopamine" pairing infectious funk grooves with socially-conscious commentary. Blurred Culture describes Watt's approach as "turning modern neuroses into something strangely catchy, wrapping sharp observations about everyday life inside wiry post-punk guitars, synth-driven grooves, and an off-kilter sense of fun," while Playdate Media calls it "a refreshing blend of art-rock and funk that tantalizes with its hypnotic, colorful songwriting." The album closes with the sprawling "Pale White Prince - Never Seen the Waters," capping a record that announces Pastel Blank as one of the more distinctive voices in Montréal's thriving indie scene.