This Is Not the End: Where Resistance Goes from Here

The album isn’t out yet. But the world it describes is already here.

As we prepare to release the first singles, slowly revealing the album’s narrative track by track, I’m struck by how urgently these themes resonate. The music, the story, the aesthetic, the message: it all feels less like a concept and more like a mirror. And in that reflection, I hope listeners see not just dystopia, but possibility.

The plan is to unveil the album gradually. Let the audience live with the story as it unfolds. Let each release deepen the arc, heighten the tension, complicate the questions. By the time the full record drops, the world of the album will already be familiar because it already is.

We’re also heading out on tour in September, playing six shows across the Southwest and west coast U.S. These performances will bring the narrative to life…masked musicians, vintage-futurist singers, visuals that dramatize capture and decay. The album may be about control, but the stage is where we take it back.

There’s also a music video on the way. It expands the visual language of the project: surveillance, subversion, alienation. And most of all, it offers a face to the faceless force behind the curtain the system that shapes us while pretending to serve us.

But more than the logistics, what excites me most is the possibility of conversation. I don’t expect the album to offer solutions. That’s not what art is for. What I do hope is that it creates space…emotional, conceptual, spiritual…for people to ask different questions. To notice things they’d learned to ignore. To feel something they didn’t know had gone numb.

I’ve always loved the idea that art says something complex simply. That’s my hope for this record. To make something you can move to, and also sit with. To build a sonic world that reflects the horror and hope of modern life. To remind us that behind the glass — behind the phones, the feeds, the filters — there are still real people. Being watched. Being tested. Being guided.

The alien masks? They’re not about outer space. They’re about how strange this world has become.

And how human we still are underneath it all.