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Stephan Folkes ‘Hazard’ - A Beautifully Unruly Diary of Self-Discovery
- Melodrift Team
- Jul 7
- 1 min read
Hazard plays like a sonic journal kept under lock and key — until now. Stephan Folkes hands us the key and dares us to read. Across eleven genreless, soul-streaked tracks, he turns trauma into texture and resilience into rhythm. There's something thrilling about how unpolished his emotions feel, even when the production is slick: you're not listening to a perfectly manicured artist, but a human mid-metamorphosis.
What’s striking is the way Folkes makes peace with chaos. Can I Be There? aches with isolation, while Undress Me drips with sensual honesty. Yet even in the heaviness, there’s levity — the album doesn’t wallow, it transforms. His voice — sometimes soft and searching, sometimes sharp and unrelenting — acts as the emotional compass throughout, guiding us through heartbreak, hope, and hard-won healing.
Hazard isn’t here to soothe — it’s here to empower. It’s music for anyone who’s fallen apart and decided to build something stronger from the rubble. Stephan Folkes has planted his flag, not in a genre, but in a feeling — and that might be even more powerful.
