2-FDCK Angel (2022, formerly "Torn From Static")

2-FDCK Angel was the second music project I made. It was recorded in 2022, not long after New Authorities, and I still hear the two as closely connected early pieces from the same period. Even so, this release moves in a different direction. Where New Authorities feels colder and more collage-based, 2-FDCK Angel feels more intimate, dreamlike, and strange, with a slight undercurrent of melancholy.

At the time it was called Torn From Static, and for a long time I did not think of it as something that would ever be released publicly. Like New Authorities, it started as a private tape project made without listeners in mind. When I came back to it in 2025, I decided it should still exist as part of the discography, but with a new title and a new cover. I kept Torn From Static as a track title, but I no longer wanted it to remain the title of the whole release.

The titles themselves do not really mean anything in a fixed sense. As with a lot of my titles, what mattered more was how they looked and sounded. Torn from static - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 were originally one three-part title track on what was then still Torn From Static. The rest of the material did not really have titles apart from B-frame. The track that is now called 2-FDCK Angel originally had no title either, but later I chose it as the new title track because it captures the feel of the release especially well. The remaining two pieces just stayed as untitled 1 and untitled 2.

The sound is still lo-fi and tape-based, but it is more organic and less dry in the way it moves. A lot of the record is built from acoustic and electric guitar with too much reverb, slowly dissolving into hiss. That combination of over-reverbed guitars and bad tape works especially well to me, and B-frame is probably the clearest example of that on the release. The core tracks for me are 2-FDCK Angel, B-frame, and Torn from static - Part 3. They feel like the clearest view into the record’s atmosphere and into the way this period of work was starting to take shape.

Everything was recorded straight to cassette, so there are no original digital masters, only the tape rip. For the digital release I kept the same approach as with New Authorities: only practical changes like leveling and sequence, without trying to clean up the recordings themselves. The tape noise and the imperfections are part of what the release is. The cassette for Torn From Static was also in much better condition than the one for New Authorities, so I do not feel the same urgency to replace this version. I did recently find a digital version of B-frame on its own, so it is possible that I release that as a single at some point, but I am still unsure because I also think the release works fine as it is.

The title 2-FDCK Angel came later. Around that time I was using a lot of drugs such as 2-FDCK, and because the release feels very dissociative to me, the title ended up feeling right. It also worked well typographically, which matters a lot to me with titles in general. I still see this release and New Authorities as a kind of diptych. They come from the same early phase and share tape roughness and private experimentation, but they arrive at different emotional worlds.

Text written in May 2026.