pMad 🇮🇪 Ireland — NineFortyFive Single Link: https://pmad.bandcamp.com/track/ninefortyfive-single-2 Single Review / Radio Feature Review by Gordon Lawrence Taylor Voice In The Void Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio
Review by Gordon Lawrence Taylor Voice In The Void Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio
Artist: pMad Country: 🇮🇪 Ireland Place: Portumna, Co. Galway, Ireland Artist / Project: Paul Dillon / pMad Track: NineFortyFive Album: 1 + 1 = -1 Track Position: Track 5 Released: 6 June 2026 Length: 3:33 Format: Digital single / streaming / download Download Quality: Available in 24-bit / 48kHz Composer: Paul Dillon Music, Recording / Mixing: pMad, Protonaut Studios, Zedakube Studios Mastering: Pepe Ortega — Elith Mastering Labs Artwork: Created by pMad
pMad, the solo project of Irish artist Paul Dillon from Portumna, Co. Galway, Ireland, continues to move deeper into shadow, memory, death, survival, and spiritual confrontation with NineFortyFive. Taken from the album 1 + 1 = -1, the track stands as one of the record’s most haunting and cinematic moments — a dark meditation on immortality, memory, loss, and what remains when time moves forward but the soul refuses to disappear.
NineFortyFive is not simply a song about death. It is a song about passage. It feels like a journey between life and something beyond life, between the body and the soul, between fear and acceptance. From its opening imagery — the chill, the cobweb gown, death arriving at the gate — pMad creates a world where mortality is not hidden, softened, or pushed away. It is brought directly to the listener and made impossible to ignore.
The song carries a strong gothic atmosphere, but its emotional weight comes from something more human than style alone. This is a track about the moment when control disappears, when a person is taken beyond ordinary time, and when memory becomes larger than the body. The repeated words “Still me” become central to the meaning of the song. They suggest that even when everything changes — the body, the world, the passing of years — something essential remains.
Musically, NineFortyFive moves with a dark, driving force. The guitars carry shadow and tension, while the rhythm gives the track a steady forward motion, almost like a procession. There is a cinematic quality to the production, with the sound opening around the voice like a landscape between earth and eternity. The track does not drift; it advances. It feels as though the listener is being carried somewhere, slowly but inevitably.
The vocal delivery is one of the strongest parts of the track. pMad sounds focused, grounded, and intense. The repetition of “Thrill me, Still me” becomes almost ritualistic. It is both a surrender and a declaration. There is fear in the song, but there is also defiance. There is an awareness that death may arrive, time may pass, and the world may change, yet the soul continues to speak.
The line about being offered a ride gives the song a strange and powerful intimacy. Death is not presented only as violence or terror. It becomes a visitor, a companion, almost a guide into another state of being. That makes the track more unsettling because it brings death close. It gives it presence. It turns the journey into something personal, not abstract.
As the song moves toward “Forever,” “Eternity,” “Immortal,” and “Immortality,” it expands beyond the individual moment and becomes something larger. The track begins with the body facing fate, but it ends with the soul refusing to be silenced. This is where NineFortyFive becomes deeply effective: it is dark, but not empty. It is heavy, but not without meaning. It speaks about death, but it is full of movement, energy, and strange life.
pMad has always worked powerfully within the space where darkness and hope exist together. NineFortyFive continues that path with confidence. It is a track filled with shadowy guitars, cinematic atmosphere, and emotional force, but beneath the darkness there is a deeper question: what survives us? The body fades, time collapses, centuries pass, yet memory, spirit, and identity continue to echo.
The single also connects strongly with the wider concept of 1 + 1 = -1, an album concerned with distorted truth, internal conflict, global instability, and the hidden battles people carry behind masks. In that wider context, NineFortyFive feels like one of the album’s spiritual centres — a song about endings, but also about continuation.
This is pMad at his most intense and reflective: Irish, independent, dark, thoughtful, and unafraid to look directly at mortality. NineFortyFive is a powerful gothic indie-rock single that turns death, memory, and immortality into sound. It does not offer easy comfort, but it offers something stronger — recognition, atmosphere, and the sense that even in the face of eternity, the soul still speaks.
Review / Radio Feature by: Gordon Lawrence Taylor Voice In The Void Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio https://infectiousuneaseradio.com
