On their latest album, Distorted Reality, alt-rock outfit No Signal crafts an immersive aural encounter that goes beyond mere listening and enters the realm of a seminal experience. No Signal accomplishes this through their sound, blending alt-rock with prog-rock allocations. Fronted by 21-year-old Riley Schmelzer, the seed of No Signal’s distinctive sound began when the teenaged Schmelzer plunged headfirst into music, followed by learning to play multiple instruments. After hearing Tool for the first time, he shifted his focus from pop music to progressive rock, psychedelic rock, and art rock. Consisting of 16 tracks, entry points on Distorted Reality include “entropele,” a portmanteau from ‘entropy’ and ‘ELE’ (extinction level event), which opens on a gentle, rippling piano topped ...