Montreal (Tiohtià:ke)’s Erik Lankin is sharing a new window into the world of his upcoming debut LP, The Icarus Album, a reinterpretation of the myth of Daedalus which Lankin has used to grapple with the loss of his father to suicide.

The tormented conceptual opening track, “Labyrinth,” is set on a stormy island as Daedalus is trapped inside the prison of his own making. Descending, harsh modal clusters of the album’s classical string ensemble are paired with electroacoustic elements including static speaker tearing (borrowed from hardcore) and a low register heartbeat, pulsing out an 8 bit binary message saying “I AM NOT OK.” – Erik Lankin