Vocalist/producer/multi-instrumentalist EDEN will release his new
album, no future on February 14 via Astralwerks. no future marks the
follow-up to his acclaimed 2018 full-length debut, vertigo. The
Dublin-bred artist born Jonathon Ng recently unveiled the album’s
lead single, “projector,” and accompanying video directed by
EDEN’s frequent collaborators Zhang + Knight. As with all of his
music to date, “projector” was recorded and produced by EDEN at
his home studio. With its dreamlike textures and heady drum-machine
rhythms, the song finds EDEN’s graceful vocal work channeling a
heavy-hearted surrender. “projector” follows “untitled,”
another track set to appear on no future which has already amassed
over one million streams and landed on Spotify’s New Music Friday
playlist in 12 countries, including the U.S., UK, Japan, and
Australia/New Zealand. Throughout no future, Ng matches that playfully
inventive sound design with the elegant musicality he discovered as a
child. Classically trained in violin from the age of seven, he later
picked up piano and guitar and played in a number of bands in his
early teens. After teaching himself music production, Ng began putting
out his own material under the name The Eden Project in 2013, and
later rechristened himself as EDEN. Released in January 2018, EDEN’s
debut album vertigo shot to No. 1 on the iTunes Top Albums chart in 12
countries, racking up over 200 million streams globally thanks in part
to the singles “start//end,” which Billboard deemed,
“striking… a nostalgically cast reflection on youth and
all-too-relatable feelings of desperation and hope,” “gold” and
“crash.” To date, EDEN has amassed over one billion streams for
vertigo and his two EPs: 2015’s End Credits and 2016’s i think you
think too much of me which features the Lorde-supported lead single
“sex,” which was hailed by Consequence of Sound as a “vulnerable
synth-tinted pop track that’s about so much more than what’s
happening between the sheets.” With the vertigo World Tour selling
out across the globe, EDEN has also performed Governors Ball,
Bonnaroo, and Firefly as well as the Reading and Leeds festivals in
the UK and Fuji Rock in Japan. V Magazine said, “both [EDEN’s]
music and his persona seem reflective of his overall goal -- to make
something grand and magical out of something that seems much
smaller… Given the captivating and utterly intriguing output he’s
given us so far, the task should be easily doable.” L’Officiel
said, “EDEN has come a long way from producing music from the
bedroom of his childhood home” and Ladygunn said, EDEN “(walks)
the line between stirring beats and subdued lyrics…earnest emotion
and ingenuity.”
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