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Raveyard Shifts is deeply personal and unclassifiable collection that folds fragmented memory, warped rhythm, and poetic introspection into a singular sonic landscape.

Long admired for his outsider approach to hip-hop, house, and abstract electronics, the New York-based producer and spoken word artist turns inward here—offering a record that feels intimate, unstable, and emotionally charged. Across its duration, Raveyard Shifts drifts between blurred textures and skeletal beats, haunted by vocal fragments, tape hiss, and a sense of nocturnal disorientation.

There are no clean lines or clear structures—just shifting moods and fractured narratives. Spoken passages surface and dissolve, rhythms crumble mid-bar, and melodic gestures appear like ghosts in the fog. It’s a record about erosion, memory, and the invisible threads that connect thought to sound.

At once raw and refined, Raveyard Shifts captures the essence of Madteo’s practice: a fearless embrace of the in-between. It’s not dance music, but it’s not not dance music either. It’s what lingers after the rave, when everything starts to blur—at once familiar and uncanny.