Unicole Unicron, pop star cult leader and founder of UNICULT, released a 10-track experimental album called This Earthly Realm on December 21, 2025. It is available exclusively on Bandcamp. Consider yourself warned: listening to this album is an act of brainwashing. That’s the whole point.
If you know Unicole Unicron through xir UNICORN project on YouTube (@unicornthebrainwasher), you know high-production, visually striking music that commands attention. This Earthly Realm comes from a completely different place. Same artist. Different transmission.
You Are Being Brainwashed
The album opens with Brainwash #6: glitch-core, disorienting, the phrase you are being brainwashed repeated until it stops sounding like a threat and starts sounding like an invitation. Before a single melody settles in, the album has already told you exactly what it intends to do to you.
Track 2, I Don’t Dream of Labor, arrives next, and the album refuses to stay in any one mood for long. This is intentional. This Earthly Realm operates like a consciousness journey, not a playlist. The extreme highs and lows are the architecture.
Track 3, Alien from Ohio, has a music video. Watch it.
The Highs
Famous in the Future (track 4) is one of the most purely joyful things on the album: “I’m famous in the future / ’cause that’s when everybody in the world has good taste.” It’s funny, defiant, and completely sincere simultaneously. Then Angel Code Activation (track 5) goes full ascension, stacking frequencies and affirmations until the repetition becomes its own form of prayer.
The Lows
You knew me then but you don’t know me now (track 6) is unlike anything else on the album. Multiple vocal tracks layered over each other, each singing something different, none competing, all somehow converging. It should be chaos. It isn’t. It sounds exactly like what it feels like to outgrow a version of yourself.
I Feel Like a Cloud (track 7) pivots into emo punk territory: raw, kinetic, the kind of track that sounds like it was written at 3am and recorded before the feeling could escape. Love Addiction (track 8, produced by Frank Royal) hits harder, intense and relentless. Block Button (track 9) closes in at just 80 seconds.
Then Cocoon closes everything out. After all that disruption, transformation. The album earns it.
Why This Matters
UNICULT exists because Unicole Unicron believes brainwashing is already happening to all of us, all the time, and that the question is only who is doing it and toward what end. This album makes that thesis physical. It runs you through glitch, punk, hardcore pop, layered vocals, and chant-like repetition. By the time you reach Cocoon, something has shifted. Whether you wanted it to or not.
It was released on the Winter Solstice. That’s not a coincidence.
Listen
Stream and purchase This Earthly Realm on Bandcamp ($11.11) →
Follow UNICORN on YouTube: @unicornthebrainwasher
