Nodes' "Laugh" Creates an Immersive Sonic World
Columbus collective Nodes, led by Arman Lopeman and Nick Allen, craft a dreamlike, immersive sonic world on "Laugh."
By Emily Votaw. Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
Laugh, the new release from Nodes, unfolds as a breathing, evolving ecosystem of sound, featuring a small orchestra of marimba, flute, cello, trumpet, clarinet, and violin.
Laugh moves like shifting weather, with warm fronts of melody colliding with cold fronts of distortion, and moments of clarity giving way to low-pressure swells of noise and atmosphere.
Logic Pro isn’t merely a recording tool here. It’s an agent of brilliant hallucination, warping and refracting each sonic fragment into vivid bursts of revelation.
Author's summary: Nodes' "Laugh" is a dreamlike sonic world.