Adrian Sherwood has shared details of his fourth solo studio album, The Collapse Of Everything.
Marking the dub pioneer’s first solo full-length release in 13 years, the 10-track record crosses genre boundaries and fuses together a wide range of influences from Sherwood’s life as a producer and music listener, according to a press release.
In a statement, he said: “Recently I lost two great friends, Mark Stewart and Keith LeBlanc, and started working with the idea of doing another solo record, because it’s been a long time since Survival & Resistance. Mark had written a song, and part of a lyric was hidden in the song about ‘The Collapse Of Everything’. It seemed a very appropriate title, both summing up my feelings about losing Mark and Keith, and on another level, what’s going on in the world now both politically and environmentally.
“When I started making tracks I was experimenting with tunings, and things kind of crashing together, trying to create a sonic that would flow and work together as a cohesive album. I wanted to take the tuned percussion ideas from the last album forward with more of the new things I’ve picked up in recent years, all the plugins and effects and things, while also keeping the vintage gear in the mix.”
To mark the album’s announcement, Sherwood has shared the title track, which you can watch a video for below.
On U-Sound will release The Collapse Of Everything on August 22, 2025.
