![]() Immunity is an album whose reputation precedes it, now even more so than it did during that long summer. I know I’m not alone in regard to that impact. Despite dozens of other albums competing for my attention, Immunity continued to linger in the mind. It became my long player of the year not only my favourite release but the one that got the most consistent play as the months went on and winter approached. That impact exists now as a collection of thoughts and emotions, linked to experiences from a personally tumultuous year. It feels difficult to comprehend the impression that Immunity left upon me when I first heard it back in the summer of 2013. I felt driven by a force way beyond myself and it was unforgettable.A relative unknown at the time, Jon Hopkins emerged as an artist in his own right on his fourth full-length release with an album that broke down the wall dividing electronic/techno music from a mainstream audience. I remember just going into the studio every day, seeing almost no one, and carrying on late into the night. I honestly have no idea where it came from – the whole creation process happened in something of a trance. Somehow this music flowed through me in that time, shining like a constant light in that winter. “ Like everyone, I went through a lot of intensely heavy stuff in the last year. It works for the sober mind, but takes on a new dimension entirely when brought into a psychedelic ceremony,” adds Hopkins. It is not ambient, classical or drone but has elements of all three. Something that is more like having an experience than listening to a piece of music. The result is “ an album with no beats, not one drum sound, something that is closer to a classical symphony than a dance / electronica record. For this collection, Hopkins wanted to make something that faced the opposite direction, something egoless and introspective, made with total, raw honesty. Music for Psychedelic Therapy is Hopkins’ first full-length since sister albums, the Grammy-nominated Singularity (2018) and Immunity (2013). Everything on the record is so intrinsically linked that rather than extract one track to release next, I made this stand-alone excerpt, which is drawn from two big moments of the second half – ‘Love Flows Over Us In Prismatic Waves,’ and ‘Deep In The Glowing Heart’.” The accompanying visualizer was created by Hopkins’ longtime collaborator, Stephen McNally, who Hopkins describes as “ uniquely able to turn the images I have in my head into things everyone can see.” Today, he shares a stunning preview of the forthcoming record with “ Music For Psychedelic Therapy (Excerpt),” and expands on this new piece of music: “ It’s time to share the music that sits at the heart of this album. Next month, Jon Hopkins will release his new album, Music For Psychedelic Therapy. ![]()
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