Escapism can be dangerous.

What do you do when every week catapults you further into a glossy dystopian sci-fi unfolding in faster-than-real time? Sometimes it’s a pleasure to explore the rabbit holes of your imagination and sometimes life drags you into one, kicking and screaming. I started work on this project several aeons ago in central Edinburgh. At the time I had no concept of an end result but I remember it was snowing like fuck. A few years I’d sooner forget down the line I found myself struggling to stay awake on a train out of Victoria. Sleek corporate buildings, light pollution saturating the sky, Japanese City-Pop in cheap headphones. I’m not sure if that was the definitive moment that solidified everything in my head, to be honest I’m not sure there was one. Slowly the album had built up around a grain of sand like scum accumulating in an oyster to form a pearl. Layers of Mark Fisher, 4am speed-garage, and late-night Tonkotsu pressed up against long car journeys and rowdy Grime sets. Fragments of half-forgotten trance melodies squashed between ambient noise and sober reflection. Lofi crackle crushed under the combined weight of the distraction economy and digital hyper-realism. Dragonflies in my algorithm. Panic attacks at the afters. White deer on the tracks between Croydon and Gatwick.

Released February 5, 2025.
 
Tracklist
1. Lone Shark (ft. Cappo) 02:04
2. Ponzu 03:42
3. Wish I Was at Home (ft. Lori Asha) 03:04
4. The Girl With The Dragonfly Tattoo (ft. Billy Got Waves) 03:16
5. Smokey Nagata 02:41
6. Nightingale 02:31
7. Snowblind 03:20
8. Collapsed Lung (ft. Philomenah + Verbz) 02:31
9. VR Headset 02:34
10. Act III 04:19
11. Post Hoc (ft. Iona Lee + Ed Scissortongue) 03:20
12. Lemon Floor Gel 03:12
13. Ouroboros 02:46
14. Veins 02:38