REMIT is a three-piece band based in Naarm/Melbourne, made up of Jordan, Sim, and Rob. They have built a reputation for creating music that is as raw as it is hypnotic, blending post-punk urgency with industrial textures and motorik rhythms that feel both relentless and alive. Their songs are recorded in a concrete bunker beneath the city, and that underground setting seems to seep into the sound itself.
Track by Track
Are You Compliant?
The album begins with a question that feels more like a demand. The bass line moves with a thick, menacing energy while the drums tick forward like a machine on a mission. Jordan’s vocals are sharp and commanding, almost taunting. It is an opener that immediately grabs you by the collar and sets the tone. The repetition locks you in, and the longer it holds, the more you feel its grip.
Debunker
This track is heavier on tension, built around a jagged rhythm that cuts forward in short bursts. The guitar burns through like interference on an old television, buzzing and disruptive, while the vocals insist on breaking down the lies we are fed. It feels like REMIT is telling you not to take things at face value, to resist the easy answer. The unease is deliberate, and it keeps you engaged.
Hills Are Shaking
Here, the band opens things up with something that feels closer to an anthem. The energy is larger, the drums hit harder, and the guitars stretch wider across the mix. The title matches the sensation: it feels like the ground is shifting beneath you, steady one moment and trembling the next. The track has a pull that feels unstoppable, and it lingers long after it ends.
Good Friends
This song takes a step back from the intensity and lands somewhere more vulnerable. The rhythm eases, the guitars soften, and the vocals carry a sense of longing. It sounds like a reflection on relationships that once mattered but now only echo faintly in memory. There is sadness in its restraint, but also a quiet intimacy that shows another side of the band.
Take This Pain Away
One of the most emotional tracks on the record, this song is heavy without being overwhelming. The drumming rolls forward like distant thunder while the guitar grinds just enough to unsettle. The lyrics are pleading but not desperate, asking for release but also acknowledging the weight of carrying that pain. It feels cathartic, like finally exhaling after holding your breath.
We Are the Wanderers
This track shifts the album into a more open, searching space. The rhythm feels looser, the guitar almost dreamlike in how it drifts across the beat. The lyrics suggest movement, both physical and emotional, and the delivery has a quiet confidence to it. It is the kind of song that makes you want to keep walking, even if you do not know the destination.
My Transformation
This one grows slowly and with intention. It begins restrained, almost skeletal, but adds layers as it builds. By the time the chorus arrives, it feels heavy with meaning. The lyrics carry a sense of reckoning, of coming face to face with the self and choosing change. The way it unfolds makes it feel like the listener is right there in that transformation too, moving step by step with the music.
Posthuman
The closer is a stark, atmospheric piece that stretches beyond the bunker and into something cosmic. It leans into abstract textures and blurred edges, guitars ringing out like signals lost in space. The vocals feel more ghostly than grounded, fading in and out as if they are part of the machinery. The album does not resolve cleanly here. Instead, it leaves you with questions, which feels entirely fitting given the title.
Final Thoughts
Questions Unanswered is an album that thrives on tension and persistence. It does not try to soothe or provide clear answers, but instead creates a space where you have to sit with discomfort and listen more deeply. REMIT’s music is raw, deliberate, and fully embodied by the underground setting in which it was created. It is an album that pushes against the surface of things and leaves you unsettled in the best way.
