John Tejada has announced details about his forthcoming album, The Watchline, which is set to land on 5 September on his own Palette Recordings imprint.
The latest long player from Tejada, who is perhaps best known for his work on Kompakt over the years, blends synths, shoegaze and techno, and marks a clear shift in direction: ’emotionally focused, sonically weathered, built around dense, guitar-led textures’, as a press release put it.
The 11-track album is also described as a ‘deeply personal’ collection for the Los Angeles-based artist – ‘a body of work less concerned with form than with feeling’. Regular collaborator March Adstrum contributes vocals on two tracks, Static Searching and Apricity.
“The Watchline is this idea of a boundary, a place between memory and forgetting, between land and ocean, between who we were and who we’re becoming,” Tejada commented. “It’s where the past still leaves traces, but the future is being written.”
The first single from the album Until the End of the World, is set for release on 18 July. Check out his Bandcamp page here.
Tracklisting
1 – Until the End of the World
2 – Greywake
3 – Northlight
4 – Driftreturn
5 – Hollowcrest
6 – Static Searching (feat. March Adstrum)
7 – The Navigator
8 – Vaporail
9 – Apricity (feat. March Adstrum)
10 – Until the Light Bends
11 – Through the Watchline
Main photo by Holly Parker.