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“A memory palace is a kind of inner-mind architecture used as a mnemonic device to recollect detailed memories. In the inter-dimensional travel of the record, the listener is pulled through dimensions to find busy within the memory palace, haunted by a group of deceased drag queen.”

Today, Colin Self shares “Busy walks into The Memory Palace,” the latest single from their forthcoming album respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis. sung by Bully Fae Collins through the voice of Busy Adams, a character from the opera “Tip The Ivy,” which Colin co-wrote with the artist, it is dance music for corporeal forms that don’t yet exist. The track makes self a different kind of time traveler; music primed to be played thousands of years hence.

r∞L4nGc is available for pre-order now in an Artist Edition of the LP, including a unique watercolor painting by Colin, Standard LP, Japanese import CD via Plancha, and wherever you find sound or it finds you.

Colin will be supporting the album on the following upcoming dates:

04/04/25 – [ES] Madrid @ Electronica en Abril Festival
04/06/25 – [NL] Den Haag @ Rewire Festival
04/21/25 – [DE] Berlin @ Volksbühne

Credit: Matthieu Croizier

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