#rhys talks

Patjhar me jhar jata hu,

Barish mein nikhar jata hu,

Garmi mein thak Gaya toh thoda murjha jata hu,

What grabbed me was how much the record leans into place—specifically Iceland—and how he let the environment dictate everything. As he put it, the idea was to “take some musicians up to Iceland and just stare out of a particular window… and play the landscape.” That turned into a record shaped by weather and isolation.

He talked a lot about vibration—how music, geography, and even memory all sit in the same space. “You need to be able to forget yourself,” he told me, and that’s where the work starts to happen. That idea runs through everything here, from volcanic landscapes to the way he describes songs as particles that never fully leave a place once they’re made.

And Gorillaz. And Blur.