"ESCAPE ARTIST" is the fourth full-length album of record producer and musician MISOGI, released on July 7, 2023, with 17 tracks and 5 pre-release singles, including "GOSSIP", "IMAGINE TECHNICOLOUR", "PINK NOISE" featuring Dream, Ivory, "SHOEGAZING" featuring No Rome, and "ULTRABLAST", produced in collaboration with grassarrows. With the album being worked on for over two years prior to its release, some of the tracks were teased by the artist on social media platforms, such as in his archive/compilation albums "STAR SEEKER VOL. 1" and "STAR SEEKER VOL. 2", as well as displaying some tracks on his Twitch streams on @MISOGIonline. For MISOGI, there’s always been a divide between the world around him and what’s going on in his head. “I was never living in the present moment – I was always daydreaming about this or that,” the 24-year-old musician and producer explains. It’s a split he brings vividly to life on his new album "ESCAPE ARTIST", crafting inventive other realms to abscond into through giddy, addictive J-pop-inspired earworms, ambient synth instrumentals, amongst others. As the record's title suggests, escapism is at its core and music has frequently provided some form of that for the artist. When he first started playing around with his own sonic creations two weeks before his 13th birthday, it began as just another hobby for him to occupy himself with; a temporary interest until something else grabbed his attention. But, with its seemingly infinite genres and sou