Some albums announce themselves with noise. Illumination announces itself with a title — and then earns it.
Jaxson Brewer’s Illumination (2025), released on Jericho Records USA, is a ten-track album of punk and grunge that runs just under twenty-nine minutes and leaves no room for filler. It is the eleventh entry in the Jericho Records catalog, and it is available now on 12″ vinyl through elasticStage — pressed on demand, shipped to your door.
This is a record about light breaking through. The track titles say so before a single note plays: “The Mirror Within,” “Fractals of Light,” “Suns and Shadows,” “Hermes Rising,” “As Above, So Below,” “The Veil Between,” “Nova Heart.” These are not the titles of a band content to stay on the surface. They point at the same questions Jericho Records keeps returning to — what is underneath, what is hidden, what happens when you look long enough to actually see it.
Ten tracks, two sides, no wasted motion
Illumination is built the way vinyl was meant to be built: two sides, five tracks each, a record you flip halfway through.
Side A opens with “The Mirror Within” (2:46) and moves through “Electric Soul” (2:44), “Fractals of Light” (3:05), “Suns and Shadows” (2:52), and “Alchemy of Time” (3:12). It is a side that sets its terms early — reflection, electricity, light broken into patterns, the tension between sun and shadow, and time itself treated as something that can be transformed.
Side B answers with “Hermes Rising” (1:47), “As Above, So Below” (3:07), “The Veil Between” (3:46), “Nova Heart” (2:32), and the title track, “Illumination” (3:04). The shortest track on the record opens the side; the longest sits near its end. The title track closes the album, which is exactly where a title track belongs — not as a thesis statement up front, but as the place the whole record has been walking toward.
The full running time is 28 minutes 59 seconds. That is a deliberate length. Illumination does not overstay, does not pad, does not ask for your afternoon. It asks for half an hour of your attention and uses every minute of it.
Punk and grunge, with something underneath
The elasticStage listing tags the album #PUNK and #GRUNGE, and those tags are doing honest work. This is guitar music with weight and friction — the sound of a band that knows its lineage. But the tracklist tells you this is not nostalgia. A punk record called Illumination that names a track “As Above, So Below” is reaching for something older than the genre and bigger than the scene. The hermetic thread runs straight through the record’s titles, from Hermes rising to the veil between worlds, and it gives the album a second layer: the noise is the surface, and underneath it is a record about seeing clearly.
That is, in the end, what the title promises. Illumination is not a mood. It is an event — the moment the light gets in, or the moment you finally look at what it shows you. A ten-track punk record is a good place to stage that event: loud enough to break through, short enough to demand a second listen.
The vinyl
Illumination is available on 12″ vinyl, pressed on demand through elasticStage. The listing price is US$38.90, with an estimated dispatch date of 30 November. As with every Jericho Records vinyl release, the vinyl is sold through elasticStage — it is not sold on jerichocreativestudios.com itself. The catalog page is where you find the album; the BUY VINYL button takes you to the elasticStage listing to order.
A note on how this works, because it matters: elasticStage presses the record when you order it. That is why there is a dispatch date rather than a warehouse shelf. You are not buying from a pile of stock. You are ordering a record that gets made for you. If you want it in hand for the turn of the season, order while the dispatch window is where it is.
The album artwork — a glowing orange figure against a dark blue-to-red field, Jaxson Brewer’s name in cream across the top, ILLUMINATION in red across the bottom — is the cover you will hold. It is, fittingly, a picture of a person lit from within. A record about light deserves a cover that glows, and this one does.
Where to hear it first
If you want to hear Illumination before the vinyl arrives, the album is streaming. The catalog card links to Jaxson Brewer’s artist page on Spotify and to the full album set on SoundCloud, where you can hear all ten tracks. Listen there, then decide. The vinyl is for the record you keep — the one that lives on the shelf, gets pulled out, gets played loud, and gets flipped halfway through because that is how it was built to be heard.
Jericho Records USA released Illumination in 2025, and the copyright on the listing reads © 2025 Jericho Records USA / ℗ 2025 Jericho Records USA. It sits in a catalog of forty-four entries and counting — a label building its shelves one record at a time.
Order the vinyl
Illumination by Jaxson Brewer — 10 tracks, 28:59, 12″ vinyl, US$38.90 on elasticStage, estimated dispatch 30 November.
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