indicates that they're quite strongly embedded in my brain. The tracks on Candy Red and Journey With the Heavy are quite elaborate and thickly textured, but Leary Blips is comparatively sparse. What caused that shift? There was a conscious sense that I wanted to do something a bit like the first release ( Venus Knock EP, 2011). I wanted to go back to something that wasn't perhaps as funky or jazzy as the Ramp and Hum & Buzz releases. I guess it had just evolved a bit from the really dense and noisy synths in Venus Knock to something that was exploring the same sonic territory, except my approach had changed to something a bit more minimal. I think the main influence was revisiting that style but taking it somewhere different. Every time I do a new release I try to create a different feel. Leary Blips is quite claustrophobic, but there's a garish cartoon element that offsets the darkness a little bit. Was there a particular mood you were trying to create? Is there ever? I like when there's a sense of balancing two really distinct moods. So one, like you said, is claustrophobic and dark, and then one is almost saccharine or comedic. I do try to maintain both of those feels in a lot of the stuff that I do. There's not really a specific reason that I go for that combination, I just find that if you do that it can be really different to different