Recovery by Synthetic Epiphany
For the full story behind this album, please check out this video - https://youtu.be/cw_0u3lPEc8
Shortly after starting work on a follow-up to my previous album, 'Resurfacing', I was in a bike accident and badly broke and displaced three of the metacarpal bones in my right hand. Due to the fractures being so severe, a cast alone wouldn't suffice, and I required surgery + wires to be inserted that ran through my knuckles and all the way down into my wrist. Being right-handed, this meant that I was totally out of action as far as music-making (and many other things) for several months, and it was also not clear if I would be able to regain my previous dexterity.
Once I had the cast + wires removed, I hit rehab hard, doing exercises religiously in order to try and regain some range of motion, as my hand was totally stiff initially. As I started to regain mobility, I had an explosion of creativity, as I could finally start to actualise all of the ideas I'd had while out of action.
The result is this album, which was completed in around three weeks of flat out work. After such a stressful period, with music being so important in my life, rather than make a bleak, melancholy album, I wanted this return to be vibrant, fun, and energetic, and as a result this is one of the more upbeat releases I have put out. It focuses on the things and the people that made that period so much more manageable, and hopefully captures the joy I felt as day by day my hand improved, and I hope it can conjure some of the same joy in all of you.
Tracklist
| 1. | Through the Wires | 6:02 |
| 2. | Heartbeats in the Dark | 3:29 |
| 3. | The Wherewithal | 4:49 |
| 4. | Endlessly | 5:34 |
| 5. | Remedy | 4:08 |
| 6. | Touchpoints | 3:38 |
| 7. | Legacy | 3:34 |
| 8. | Upside Under | 3:36 |
