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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from British indie rock band Black Honey was inspired in part by director Stanley Kubrick.
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  1. 80
    It has the angst and energy we have come to expect, but refined through a miscellany of new sounds and influences while challenging what a Black Honey record can be, shifting away from their punk and grunge roots and cementing their growing reputation.
  2. Sep 18, 2025
    80
    On ‘Soak’, Black Honey have finessed their trademark cinematic sound, alongside a renewed sense of clarity.
  3. Sep 18, 2025
    80
    With ‘Soak’ Black Honey are at their most fully fledged, brandishing a sword against the darker sides of society while still allowing time to reflect inwards in moments of raw introspection.
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Sep 18, 2025
    70
    Singer Izzy Baxter Phillips brings a rich, seductive lustre to spacey nu-grunge songs of lust, addiction, sexual assault, neuro-divergence and emotional exhaustion. [Oct 2025, p.76]