Anil Sebastian showcases a textured and disparate approach on debut single "Human"

From start to finish, there is the sense that something is either lost or losing face in "Human". Sebastian and his production team - brother Ingmar and Jon Hopkins collaborator Cherif Hashizume - create a soundscape of disparate instrumentation and haunting vocals, flitting from jittering electronics to crashing percussion and strings. It is a textured and deeply personal account of issues faced on a global level, and from the off certainly feels as such.

There is however a mockery, perhaps even an acceptance, which similarly resides within the music. There are various examples of Sebastian's rejection of illusionary peace ("this beautiful fallacy means nothing to me") and acceptance of our own relative insignificance ("only human, after all / evolution, after all"), though it is the closing lines of "all we can do is dance / it’s all we can do" that prove the most memorable. Amid the instrumental chaos and tension which ends the track, this is Sebastian’s most obvious assertion of both our helplessness and our need to deal with such a situation as best we can. Even if dancing is the only solution available.

Mesonoxian is due out in September on Relative State Records.

Listen to ‘’Human’’ below.