Dark electronic music from the inner west of Sydney.

FLATLINE is the bastard child of 90s noir trip-hop — raised on Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead, then dragged somewhere colder and more personal. Smoke, sub-bass and dread. Made for headphones, in the dark.

It's a conceptual comatose nightmare — an anecdotal journal of two years of trauma, love, grief and loss. It's built to feel like déjà vu. Have I been here before? No — this is the same demon I deal with every day.

I won't pretend this record is about anything other than what it's about. Every track is real. Every scar became scripture; every wound a verse. There's no metaphor here I'm using to keep you at a distance.

Men aren't really given anywhere to put this stuff, so most of us carry it alone until it gets heavy enough to sink us. I made this instead of going under. It's my way of saying the thing we're supposed to keep to ourselves: it's okay not to be okay.

But the dark has a pull to it — it can start to feel like home, like the only honest place. That feeling is real, and it lies. Don't follow it all the way down.

We don't have to be alone in it. Wherever you are in it — reach out to someone. Stay. You are wanted. You are needed.

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