A Sad Waltz

Have you ever wondered if what was happening to you was real? The glittering yet dull fugue state of unreality seeping into your reality?

Loss (2025) is a reimagination of the Loss song cycle from 20212. It is a richly layered, multi-perspective narrative that explores the emotional landscapes of grief, memory, and disconnection.

Conceived as a “discontinuous story” told through multiple voices across an inconsistent timeline, Loss follows the parallel experiences of “her” and “him” as they navigate worlds that sit close to—but never fully align with—each other. Although the narrative references Tokyo, Paris, New York, and Sydney, it remains unconcerned with the specificity of place, instead using these shifting locations as emotional backdrops rather than fixed settings. The music itself blends composed pieces with found sounds sourced from old tapes, minidiscs, hard drives, and global travels, reinforcing the motif that what is lost can sometimes be rediscovered in unexpected forms.

Recurring images—black ribbons, dirty scars, sour umeboshi, bright flames—reappear throughout the cycle, functioning as symbolic anchors for themes of concealment, consequence, sensation, dreams and redemption. Each track is built with its own sense of motion, often contrasting reflective narration with an urgent desire to move forward, forget, or simply continue. Loss is not just an album; it is a curated emotional archive that invites listeners to drift through impressions, fragments, and resonant details rather than follow a linear plot.

Central to the impact of Loss is its intentional discontinuity. This fragmentation mirrors the irregular rhythms of grief, where memories surface unexpectedly and emotional states loop back upon themselves. The narrative refuses to progress in a conventional sequence; instead, it unfolds as a mosaic of insights, sensations, and half-remembered moments. By disrupting chronological order, the work captures the way grief suspends time, stretching some moments, collapsing others, and creating a perpetual uncertainty about what belongs to “before,” “after,” or “now.”

This discontinuity is reinforced by the project’s creative methodology. Much of the audio and video material was not originally recorded for Loss, but chosen from disparate archives of travel footage, ambient recordings, and forgotten personal media. After a ten-year gap, the band went back to the master tapes, added new material, integrated a postscript track from 2015 into the narrative and over the last decade have added layers of sound, weaving motifs and riffs into the displaced narratives. These elements introduce temporal and geographical dislocations, creating a sense of narrative drift. The listener experiences the story not as a sequence but as a constellation, each fragment meaningful, yet never fully complete. By inviting audiences to inhabit these interwoven emotional spaces, Loss becomes a powerful meditation on how stories break apart and reassemble in the aftermath of profound change 

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released February 18, 2026

Produced and written by Peter Bryant
Spoken word performed by AK, Calisto, Kyle and the most amazing performance as the lead character ‘her’ by Lynx.
Violin played by Hannah Watson
Sample from the 1975 LP Sexual Pleasures by Pent-R-Books Inc