Fractured EP by Dark Strands

With all that is happening in the world right now, a new musical beginning has slowly emerged that is taking my creative output into a different form and approach than before.

Like others, in times of immense change and uncertainty things blur and alter without you sometimes realising. Tastes and experiences can fracture and morph into new thoughts and explorations. The music presented across the E.P. represents that change. Since lockdown I have been inspired by revisiting past interests, picking up and seeing things in different perspectives to the old way, awakening to my everyday surroundings that would normally melt in the daily humdrum of life.

‘Twelve’ came about through a renewed interest in asking, what clues do we have on what the human race is capable of. Apollo missions and landing on the moon more than 50 years ago is truly astonishing and a landmark on what truly can become through a single idea. Watching old films and then seeing in more recent times a new space race being picked up where NASA left off kept me thinking.. why now?

‘Soft hearts in a cruel world’ is a known phrase that I came about by chance. It intrigued me enough to think that it was a fitting summary to the times we live by today.

‘Fractured’ is another world of dystopia and tension. The changing rhythms and bass interwoven with a changing landscape seemed to fit this point of our lives now.