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ARTIST
TITLE
The Quest for the Normal Is the Death of the Self
FORMAT
CD

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ESPDISK 5103CD ESPDISK 5103CD
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RELEASE DATE
6/19/2026

Entropic Hop's sophomore studio album, their first on ESP-Disk', is a covert extraterrestrial mind control program utilizing controversial sonic hypnosis techniques; a prurient hyperreal triad unraveling in sonic flux while rupturing auditory expectations; an inter-dimensional artifact filtering rigorous initiation rituals and organized chaos into weapons of discourse against hierarchical coercion. After the psychoactive success of their 2023 Japanese tour, Entropic Hop returned to NYC envisioning a posthuman soundscape, one that could not only thread a future-proof sanctuary of kindness through the erratic kerfuffle of musique concrète, but one that could also tickle the visionary spectral residues of Roscoe Mitchell, cuddle the residual husk of Stockhausen's "Die sieben Tage der Woche," and strive to implement Joseph Beuys' "science of freedom." To achieve these goals on TQFTNITDOTS, Ayumi Ishito has evolved her marriage of saxophone and electronics into broad new spectral explorations of echoing simulacrum; Aron Namenwirth's guitar swims in an awakened molten lattice of distortion, glitch, and peaceful aspiration; Kevin Shea's dystopian percussive algorithms have emerged to convert alien code from the electronovoid into sunshine. While some may hear the echoes of a fractured world, Entropic Hop finds a sanctuary of kindness within the musical process -- humor in tragedy and laughter inside the darkness. TQFTNITDOTS is one antidote to the madness -- a defiant call to reclaim the spirit.