JQ - I Heard Your Voice In The Noise

‘I Heard Your Name In The Noise’ is the opening track from Truth Serum, the beguiling new project from London producer JQ. His club-adjacent ambient compositions move gently through intricate sound design, tactile textures and dancefloor hum in service of what LA label Post-Geography describes as “five fragmented reflections of the digital experience”. Though consistently gorgeous, JQ’s soundscapes continually verge on the dissociative, and the nervous clicks and compulsive bursts of noise reflect a subdued anxiety and paranoia elicited by track titles like ‘Trapped Inside A Glacial High’ and ‘I Bite My Nails Till They Bleed’. It’s in this dissonance that producer’s work aligns with artist Thomas Harrington Rawle, whose Day-Glo dystopia inhabits a very similar space. For the video for ‘I Heard Your Name In The Noise’, Rawle extends the universe of his short film Care More, an animated portrait of an anhedonic post-apocalypse that doubles as a potent critique of the atomised commodification of self-care