Escape Lounge by Heith

On the empty Petri dish of the brain, internet psychosis viciously spreads, colonizing all available space with its self-multiplying, all-consuming energy. Electronica artist Heith documents this process on Escape Lounge, an experimental pop record that sets atmosphere and structure against each other in an existential battle for the mind. An aesthetic foundation in the liminal, amorphous realm of elevator music underpins the album, contributing smooth synth pads, melodic jazz solos, and minimal electronic percussion. To Heith, elevator music represents an empty, unimpeded mind due to its association with liminal spaces, comparing the blank slate consciousness with an empty airport concourse or waiting room. From here, dark pop vocals, trip hop drums, and abstract electronic noise simultaneously add texture and structure, shaking the elevator music out of its cycle and setting its course for a more pointed narrative. Just as these elements reprogram the essential nature of the music, so too does the information we consume rewire our brains, sending us down cultish rabbit holes that shape our identities in ways people even one generation ago could have never imagined.