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Belgian sound artist and composer Yves De Mey returns with Bleak Comfort, his third solo album and his debut on Latency. Known for his precise and adventurous approach to sound design, De Mey delivers his most immersive and challenging work to date.

As the title suggests, Bleak Comfort explores the tension between restraint and release, control and chaos. Through meticulous electro-acoustic synthesis, De Mey blurs the boundaries between texture and rhythm, crafting dense, spatial compositions that are both visceral and hallucinatory. The result is a body of work that defies easy categorization—unfolding as a disorienting, at times vertiginous experience where movement, sound, and architecture become entangled.

While moments like the skeletal post-techno of ​“Stale,” the fluid Autechre-esque pulses of ​“Wearing Off,” or the shape-shifting electro contours of ​“Vecto” and the title track may find resonance on adventurous dancefloors, Bleak Comfort ultimately functions as a unified, psychoacoustic narrative—music for the body as much as the mind.

De Mey continues to redefine the possibilities of electronic composition, delivering a singular and essential statement that expands the Latency catalog in bold new directions.