A few more thoughts on my new album, Fragile World, this month, at the risk of talking about a release that doesn’t yet exist as a finished thing.
The direction feels clear even if the destination isn’t in sight yet. Detroit techno and electronica are the foundation, as they always are in my work, with a significant reach into ambient and house. The balance between those things is different from Lost Cause Part Two. That album was weighted towards the rhythmic and the structured. Fragile World is pulling more consistently towards atmosphere and space.
The title track, Still, Fragile, which is one of the pieces I’m furthest along with, sets an emotional register that I want the rest of the album to honour. There is a vulnerability in it that I find difficult to talk about directly. Fragility as a quality is not just about delicacy. It is about the particular kind of beauty that comes from things that could break and haven’t yet, or that are already completely broken beyond repair…
The acid elements are present in the material I’ve made so far but differently from how they’ve appeared in previous work. Less prominent, more integrated, more like a quality running through the music than a feature of it.
None of this is fixed yet. The album will tell me what it is as it develops. But the early signs are good.
