A little backstory on the album -

This album was quite an experience for me. It was first originally tracked in the exact same “live session” ambient and drone heavy fashion as my previous album “Ritual,” and for some reason, it didn’t sit right with me.

I felt like it needed more, and I started to feel claustrophobic like I was almost just creating an extended version of previous work. This anxiety caused a major shift in what was to come...

At the time of my claustrophobic feelings, I was reading everything I could get my hands on ever written by (my favorite) French Philosopher Éliphas Lévi, most importantly "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie" (Dogma and Ritual of High Magic.) I was reading one night and this passage sparked everything that was to come...

"The man who is enslaved by his passions or worldly prejudices can be initiated in no wise; he must reform or he will never attain; meanwhile he cannot be an adept, for this word signifies a person who has achieved by will and by work. The man who loves his own opinions and fears to part with them, who suspects new truths, who is unprepared to doubt everything rather than admit anything on chance, should close this book: for him, it is uselessand dangerous. He will fail to understand it, and it will trouble him, while if he should divine the meaning, there will be a still greater source of disquietude. If you hold by anything in the world more than by reason, truth or justice; if your will be uncertain and vacillating, either in good or evil; if logic alarm you, or the naked truth make you blush; if you are hurt when accepted errors are assailed; condemn this work straight away. Do not read it; let it cease to exist for you; but at the same time do not cry it down as dangerous. The secrets which it records will be understood by an elect few and will be reserved by those who understand them. Show light to the birds of the night-time, and you hide their light; it is the light which blinds them, and for them is darker than darkness. It follows that I shall speak clearly and make known everything, with the firm conviction that initiates alone, or those who deserve initiation, will read all and understand in part." - Éliphas Lévi

This passage struck me and landed in a way I have never experienced before. It was as though, I instantly lost all fear and doubt about this record and knew what I needed to do, and it was telling me to be as authentic as I could be. So then, the path was set.

I decided that the only way to truly express in my music how I think and feel, I needed to start by pulling in all of my influences that led me up to this point, as varied as they were.

Artists like Burial, Aphex Twin, Apparat, and Autechre were what originally sent me spiralling into my deep love for electronic music, and as I drummer, I realised as I was making electronic music, I had never taken the opportunity to sample, cut, and splice in acoustic drum beats and breaks with my ambient nature of recording.

The result is this album, "The Inevitable Death of Language." I truly hope you enjoy this album/ journey as much as I enjoyed creating it. It was a truly transformational experience.

X.