Tom Foden Reveals New Album ‘{…r e l e a s e…}’
Tom Foden’s {…r e l e a s e…} is a 13-track debut album from Te Whanganui-a-Tara based producer and musician Tom Foden, is out now.
The album documents a journey through and beyond depression – not by treating it as an illness to overcome, but by recognising it as a necessary companion: something that held the young Tom when nothing else could, and that he has spent years learning to release with gratitude. At its centre is {…h e l d…}, a song about the relationship between a boy and the suffering that provided stability when his world would not.
Sonically, {…r e l e a s e…} moves between electronic texture and intimate song, between field recording and engineered sound, between the improvised and the obsessively constructed. Influences range from Arca to Oneohtrix Point Never, Sufjan Stevens to Frank Ocean, Squarepusher to Brian Eno – but the record sits in its own space. Personal, purposeful, and entirely DIY.
{…r e l e a s e…} is now available on Bandcamp, Subvert and SoundCloud. No DSP release. A considered, values-led decision.
