REVIEW: Bunch Of Others – ‘CURIOSITY’
Bunch of Others’ debut project ‘CURIOSITY’ arrives as a record born from absence, guided by memory, and carried by a community determined to turn devastation into connection. Where their first single hinted at a musical séance between brothers, the full project expands that spiritual circuitry into a portrait of grief that refuses to sit still, choosing motion, colour, and collaboration instead of collapse.
The emotional epicentre is Jeff Tubbs, writing from the crater left by the death of his brother Kyle, a once-rising frontman whose life was cut short by fentanyl. The album becomes a meeting place and a proof of concept that the bonds built in music don’t simply dissolve when a person disappears.
The lead single ‘I AM NOT SCARED’ sets the tone. It sounds like someone pushing through the wreckage of a bad night and deciding, despite everything, to keep breathing. There’s ache here, but also the kind of shaky courage that feels more human than heroic. Jeff sings like he’s trying to reach someone on the other side of static, and the production leans into that liminal space.
Where the earlier single ‘CURIOUSITY’ merged past and present in an almost supernatural duet, the rest of the record expands that ethos into different emotional corners. Some tracks hover, weightless and searching; others groove with the restless energy of someone trying to dance their way through heartbreak. The band make a living, breathing environment where grief gets to move, stretch, and reconfigure itself.
What makes this project land so deeply is its collective heartbeat. These songs sound like many hands carrying something heavy together. Horn lines, bass pulses, drifting synths, and voices rising around Jeff feel like the “bunch of others” reaching out, lifting him, steadying him, participating in the reconstruction of a story that could have ended in silence.
There’s a through-line of rebirth here, in the messy, truthful way where healing looks more like curiosity than closure. The album name is intentional: offering an invitation to keep asking questions, keep leaning toward what hurts, and keep seeking the places where art becomes a form of staying alive.
By the time ‘CURIOSITY’ ends, it’s clear this is a refusal to let tragedy decide the final word. Bunch of Others have created an album that turns mourning into movement, absence into presence, and music into a space where two brothers can meet again.