Russell Haswell has a new album on the way via Diagonal.
His first release for the label since 2019’s 37 Minute Workout Vol. 2, the 10-track Reality Therapy was created as a response to real-time live feeds on YouTube that Haswell watched amid the COVID-19 pandemic, on which various stories were broken by news-gathering agencies. The record, a press release says, makes connections to "a political climate punctuated by strikes, class-war and protests." Listen to lead cut ‘Availability Heuristic’ above.
In a statement about Reality Therapy, Haswell said: "The themes and styles that I selected reflect what I saw going on in the world around me during this weird time that we all went through… The imprisonment of [Russian dissident Alexei] Navalny, COVID lockdowns and the shambolic government – I couldn’t help feeling the similarities to the ’80s and early ’90s, and so the music includes stylistic themes and sound references to that period transposed into a more positive and humorous light."
Diagonal will release Reality Therapy on September 22, 2023.
