I have no idea what I'm doing when I compose. I don't know where it comes from, I don't know where it goes, nor does it seem to matter. I just know when it's over. So all I can really do is feel my way to the end, then try to retrospectively analyze what might be going on and try to figure out what its purpose is. What is clear is that this has the structure of a Ritual. I know what this Ritual is for me, but it will be something different for you. It feels important not to be prescriptive about what this Ritual actually is.
It feels like a tool, maybe even a machine, for opening gates to your inner world, for unlocking things that are hidden and buried. Things held by tension in your body. As such, it doesn't feel like an “album” – more of a process you go through, something that works for you. At the same time, it feels like it's telling a story. Perhaps it is the story of a process that I go through, and one that we all go through. Perhaps it is also the story of creation, destruction and transcendence. Perhaps it is the story of the archetypal hero's journey — the journey of forgetting and remembering.
Ultimately though, all I have to say about it is the sound.
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