Singer, songwriter, and producer, EDEN has released his new full-length album ICYMI today. The project is a sonic odyssey through loss and life, dovetailed by EDEN’s effortless welding of genres between electronic, R&B, and something else entirely his own. ICYMI deftly weaves between euphoric dance beats, ambient field recordings, and an unshakeable sense of urgency as EDEN catapults towards catharsis.
Speaking on the album, EDEN said, “This project is an attempt to catalog ephemerality. Thinking about time and place, and how the definitive moments of an existence are wrapped in each and consigned to memory. How they manifest and echo again and again, the same threads weaving to the fore and back again.”
Along with the album release, EDEN also shared the lead single “Reaching 2,” the concluding track in which he reconciles loss with love in a climactic medley of overlapping vocals.
Throughout the album, EDEN resolves that ”…trying to archive my life is how I can put it behind me. Recognizing it for how it really was, feeling love for it, and understanding that you are in a new space now and cannot go back. Even if you would sometimes like to. You can’t experience unloss, and you can’t erase hurt – or love for that matter.”