Rasco // Feeling O

Rasco’s Feeling O is the sound of a band widening its frame without abandoning the directness that made its earlier work click. The Berlin-based trio of Eden Atiya, Gaya Wajsman, and Itay Levi takes its name from Charlie Megira’s “At the Rasco,” an apt clue to a musical vocabulary built from surf guitar, garage rock, and ’60s pop. Across eight songs and a lean 33 minutes, those reference points remain intact, with The Cramps, The Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, and April March all part of the stated lineage, but Feeling O pushes further into shoegaze and psychedelic weight. Electric guitar lines and close vocal harmonies keep melody at the center, while producer and arranger Ben Avgay gives the material more space than on the band’s earlier work. The result is music that can feel immediate without sounding cramped, balancing raw rhythmic momentum with a more atmospheric sense of scale. Just as important is the tension Rasco draws between urban life and the natural world, a recurring theme that gives the album something more substantial than retro styling to hang on. Compared with 2024’s Dmaot, Feeling O reads as a refinement rather than a reset: broader in dynamics, tighter in construction, and still warm enough to preserve the trio’s personality. Rather than choosing between vintage pop economy and heavier modern textures, Rasco lets the two coexist naturally. It is a compact record with a clear sense of lineage, but its appeal comes from how naturally those older languages blur into something contemporary.