Fractures - Next Summer

Next Summer is designed as a start-to-finish experience, ebbing and flowing naturally, capturing Fractures' musical headspace.

Speaking on the album, Fractures says: "it's a time capsule. It's where my head wanted to be musically at that point in time, and naturally it'll set me on a path to whatever's next".

The album features collaborations with British talent including rising spoken-word artist Emmeline, Mancunian ambient producer, Frameworks, and Nattica from Fickle Friends on the single 'Oh My'.

Fractures says: "There's no overarching theme to this album, not lyrically anyway. It's cobbled together like short diary entries of someone journeying through a sort of middling stasis in their life, a time of nothing particularly noteworthy, and that in itself provokes deeper and maybe darker introspection. I didn't feel like needlessly plugging holes with lyrics, just light dabs here and there, light and shade to complete the visual I pictured in my head. The through line of the album is more within the sonic palette. There's a murkiness, a sort of dust in the audio that is cast over every song. Nothing is entirely clean, but hopefully that makes it feel a bit more human."