At the start of 2026 I set myself a plan. Five singles across the year. A steady release schedule that would take me through to autumn, building toward something I’d been quietly assembling without fully realising it. It felt ambitious. It felt manageable. It felt like a year’s work.
It’s April. I’ve almost done it.
GHOST2·0 came out in January. SCROLLING followed. BURN drops on 22 May. TIMES is mixed, mastered, and ready for a July release. And Love Unspoken – my most personal track to date, the one I’ve been sitting with for months, the one that came from a place of real and sustained loneliness – is currently in production with my collaborator Jay. By the time summer arrives, everything I planned for 2026 will exist.
That’s a strange feeling to sit with.
I’ve never been here before. Not once in my career as an artist have I found myself ahead of the plan. Usually I’m chasing the plan. Usually the gap between the music in my head and the music that exists in the world feels impossibly wide. This year something shifted – the momentum built, the creative decisions came quickly, the sessions with Jay moved faster than I expected – and suddenly I’m standing in April looking at a near-complete body of work wondering what comes next.
The honest answer is I don’t know yet.
Part of me wants to keep going. There’s no shortage of material – I have demos sitting in folders that haven’t seen daylight, ideas that have been circling for months, a song called Riddle that I’ve been turning over in my mind for longer than I care to admit. The creative momentum is real and momentum, once you have it, feels dangerous to interrupt.
But another part of me wonders whether pausing is actually the smarter move. Not stopping – never stopping – but stepping back and letting what’s been made breathe before rushing toward what comes next.
What I do know is this. Those five singles aren’t just five singles anymore. They’re something bigger. GHOST2·0, SCROLLING, BURN, TIMES, and Love Unspoken share a sonic identity – all produced by Jay, all sitting in the same emotional world of loneliness, struggle, love, and the complicated space between darkness and hope. Taken together they form an EP. A body of work that tells a story I didn’t know I was telling when I started the year.
That EP will arrive later in 2026. And when it does, it will represent something I haven’t had before – a complete, cohesive statement of who I am as an artist right now.
But first I need to sit with this strange, unfamiliar feeling of being ahead of the game. For someone who has spent years chasing the plan, it turns out that’s harder than it sounds.