The Testimony Is Delivered: World Goth Day

The Testimony Is Delivered: World Goth Day

Present Day, May 23, 2026The Geometry of Ruin is in the world. World Goth Day. May 22 has passed and the album exists now in the way that things that have been released exist: no longer mine in any exclusive sense, belonging to whoever hears it and brings their own...
Three Days: On Choosing to Speak

Three Days: On Choosing to Speak

Present Day, May 2026In three days the testimony becomes public. I want to say something about what it means to choose to speak after choosing silence for a very long time.The silence was not passive. I was not absent from the world during the centuries of it. I was...
78 Minutes: The Complete Arc

78 Minutes: The Complete Arc

Present Day, May 2026The album is 78 minutes. Twelve tracks. I want to describe the arc briefly, because I think the arc is the point and the individual tracks only fully make sense within the arc.The album begins with the dream and ends with the children. The...
The Orchard Sleeps

The Orchard Sleeps

Present Day, May 2026The Orchard Sleeps is the hardest song I have written in a very long time. Harder than Black Sun Rising, which required precision and restraint but not grief. Harder than Children of the Ember, which required finding the genuine warmth underneath...
The Architect’s Dream: Why the Perfect System Breaks

The Architect’s Dream: Why the Perfect System Breaks

Various, consolidatedThe Architect’s Dream opens the album because it is where the geometry always begins: in the conviction that this time, with sufficient intelligence and sufficient resources and sufficient will, it will be possible to build something...