Isolating - Perennial (2020)

Following the acclaimed debut EP ‘System’ released on Optimo Music in May 2020, ‘Perennial’ is a disquieting and dystopian album which shifts from the ambient and atmospheric ‘Mortification’ to the IDM inspired electro of ‘Sacrament’. Each of the eleven tracks melding into each other with an unsettling and brooding anxiety.

‘Perennial’ mirrors the concepts behind ’Perennial Philosophy’ by Aldous Huxley. Solitarily created in London room on a Modular system, ‘Perennial’ tackles the perspective in spirituality that views all of the world's religions as sharing a single, metaphysical origin, with a nod to the Lucretius quote; “To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.”

Isolating said: “During lockdown, between analog sonic meanderings, I read Aldous Huxley’s book, ‘Perennial Philosophy’ - essentially arguing that there is only one religion and it just splintered off into sects. Interesting in the same way that cults are interesting. That said, this album is fully unreligious… Just looking purely within…. Wholly unsacred.”