2018’s self-titled album told the story of a lone space traveler, lost in space and trying to navigate. Katalyst brings us back to civilization, but the world is uncertain. Fear abounds, and no one is safe. Our journey this time follows Barbara, a woman who has been thrust into a broken world; a world that she can no longer trust. In the autumn of 1965, Barbara’s husband discovered an aged Haitian codex buried in the piles of a small bookstore while passing through Port-au-Prince on his way home from a business trip. During the course of the next year, he became increasingly withdrawn, often shutting himself in his study for days at a time, pouring through the text over and over again, until… One night, when Barbara awoke in a pool of her own sweat, and there he was, standing over her with the old book in hand, chanting unintelligible incantations. Candlelight danced around the room, casting strange shadows that writhed like phantom limbs. Barbara had already been planning to leave, and this was it; this was the final straw and the veiled opportunity she had been waiting for. She grabbed the bag that she had packed and bolted from the house, but the incantation, the katalyst for what happened next, had already been completed. Barbara fled the country; she wanted to escape to a place where she could never be found. And it was in the countryside of a small village in the eastern part of the world that she finally took refuge in a paltry monastery. She has called this place