Three months until August. The album is very nearly finished and I want to write one more personal piece about the making of it before the focus shifts entirely to the release.
The making of Fragile World has been a longer process than I expected when I started it in 2024. Not longer in a worrying sense, not because something went wrong or because the direction was unclear. Longer because the album asked more of me than I realised it would when I named it and began working.
The emotional territory it inhabits, loss, resilience, fragility and what survives it, required a quality of honesty in the production that cannot be rushed. There were sessions in 2025 where I thought I had a track finished and then came back to it a week later and heard that it was not yet fully honest. That it was still protecting something rather than saying the thing it needed to say. Those tracks went back into development. Some of them are now among the strongest on the record. A couple of them have not made the cut.
Making this release was different from Lost Cause Part Two in one fundamental way: I knew what I wanted it to be before I made most of it. The title came before the music. The emotional intention was clear from early on. That clarity was both a guide and a pressure. When you know what something should be, falling short of that is harder to accept.
I am proud of what is nearly done. I believe it is the best work I have made. August cannot come quickly enough.
