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"After releasing my debut album 'EGO DEATH', I started working on the single 'GRADIENT', but felt I couldn't create anything I liked anymore. I had just released this huge body of work, so writing music felt like this central part of my identity that I could no longer access. I relied greatly on narrative to carry me through the first album, and without that, I couldn’t figure out where to go. The song sat in a half-finished state for months. My inability to create made me feel like a fraud. Making electronic music got me through a lot of tough stuff and suddenly I found that the space that was so sacred and special was no longer welcoming to me. I stopped even attempting to write music for myself, and instead focused on doing creative work for others. However during this time, I still kept up with listening to electronic music. Now that the pandemic was more or less gone and live events had resumed, I found myself getting inspired again. Time went by, and the grief that had taken hold had begun to fade a bit, and I found myself looking back at the little fragments of songs I had left in a folder named ‘sepulchre’ on my desktop. A word for a stone chamber where the dead are laid to rest, what started as a grim joke, suddenly held power. These audio fragments and ideas all felt like little snap shots of myself, tiny monuments of what I had been feeling, but now also held possibility. I decided I didn’t care if my stuff was perfect or new, or grand, or whatever, I just wante