Cornelius shares new funk track, "Twisting & Glistening"

"Twisting & Glistening" follows previous singles "Yumenemi" and “Aeons”, which features vocals from Sean Ono Lennon, as a dance-oriented funk track, shifting away from his introspective work into more expansive and external experiences. Speaking about how the song came together, Cornelius explains: "Using electronic dance music from around 1985 as a starting point, I layered in jazz-influenced tension chords, carefully placing each sound with a sense of space and frequency range. It’s a track where I revisited sounds I loved as a teenager, but from where I am now."

"I hadn’t really tried this kind of approach before, and once I started working with it, it felt unexpectedly fresh," he continues. "The unresolved chords also came about quite naturally. That suspended feeling ended up connecting with the lyric’s sense of something that disappears just as you try to grasp it. Mirrors, reflections, sound, waves — they all exist, but they never quite settle into a fixed form. That kind of shifting perception sits at the center of the track."

"A lot of my recent work has been more introspective, but with the sense of stagnation in the world and the intensity of the times we’re living through, I’ve also found myself drawn to music that opens outward a little more," he adds. "I think that feeling connects to the rhythm of this track, its outward movement, and the sensation of chords that remain unresolved."