Album Release - separated from her twin, a dying android arrives on a mysterious island.

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EDIT: alternate link bc some people have had trouble with the embedded upload:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QxoSzI1vV_GR4TK3yonDkLMCSjJjR2Bs/view?usp=sharing

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zip is attached to this post. this project is very special to me.

here is the text from the bandcamp description, which i feel is important to the concept:

i've always been obsessed with places that feel unfamiliar, or maybe more specifically, places that explicitly lack signifiers of what i'm used to. i love everything that doesn't remind me of anything. there are all these apartment interiors that break my heart whenever i think of them because of their magical unfamiliarity that is so completely beyond language because of its specificity to my experience.

i feel like i've spent most of my life chasing that and running from everything else. when i was younger it was mostly fiction that held that feeling, crying myself to sleep thinking about myst island or the underworld in terranigma or whatever, but the more cities i visited as an adult the more addicted i got to the gorgeous, wordless feeling of unfamiliarity that a real inhabitable place can hold.

it's very hard for me to feel anything positive about myself and the things that remind me of myself, so if i end up moving to one of those magical places, my self-perception always overwrites most or all of the magic eventually; the only way to keep it alive is to hold it at a distance, never become used to it, never be there nearly as much as i need to.  these songs are partly an attempt to synthesize one of those places, and partly a nostalgic reflection on some of the ones that i already know of. it's a frustrating thing because what's magical and unfamiliar to me might be an instantly recognizable hell to somebody else. i wish i could convey the feeling to you more precisely - but then, maybe if i could, it would fade away forever.

credits:

Remy Boydell did the drawing of me on the cover art.  Ash Nerve wrote and performed harmonies throughout.  Marina Ayano Kittaka, ESPer99, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Ash Nerve, emamouse and Devi McCallion performed backup vocals on the song "otherworld", which is about wishing you could escape somewhere magical from the hell that is this world. the aforementioned people are all very dear to me and i associate all of them with places that are, or were at one time, magical escapes to me.