Japanese visionary Cornelius has announced REFRACTIONS, his new album due August 19 via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings. The new preview arrives with the track “Twisting & Glistening.”
“Using electronic dance music from around 1985 as a starting point, I layered in jazz-influenced tension chords, carefully placing each sound with a sense of space and frequency range” Cornelius explains. “It’s a track where I revisited sounds I loved as a teenager, but from where I am now. I hadn’t really tried this kind of approach before, and once I started working with it, it felt unexpectedly fresh. The unresolved chords also came about quite naturally. That suspended feeling ended up connecting with the lyric’s sense of something that disappears just as you try to grasp it. Mirrors, reflections, sound, waves — they all exist, but they never quite settle into a fixed form. That kind of shifting perception sits at the center of the track.”
Marking a more outward-looking phase in Keigo Oyamada’s career, REFRACTIONS places collaboration at the center of a body of work that continues to blur the boundaries between experimental pop, electronics, and contemporary composition. Alongside the announcement, Cornelius has also confirmed a Japanese tour and a headline performance at Barbican Centre.
Listen below.
