Bicyclops releases debut album

Hailing from Toronto, producer and multi-instrumentalist Bicyclops came into being when the artist began to experiment with ambient compositions and destructive sound manipulation techniques while studying neuroscience at the University of Toronto.

Drawing inspiration from the unexpected beauty of analog and digital artefacts, he produced his first three EPs using a laptop, a microphone, and a VCR. Following up with his next EP, 2017’s Near, he fused this experimental approach with more focused, vocal-centred songwriting. With that new approach involving vocals, his sound found a new voice.

Now, the producer emerges from the pandemic with his debut full-length album Marooned, released via Canadian imprint Plutoid Records. Marooned represents the artist’s most fully-realised and ambitious project to date, with the wider sonic road allowing him to explore his forward-thinking vision to music.

Dynamic and wholly unpredictable, throughout Marooned Bicyclops weaves his voice through shifting layers of synthesis and static, combining rich atmospheres, electronic rhythms and a penchant for the experimental creating a truly kaleidoscopic listening experience.

From the deep atmosphere of “Dyad” to the dark rhythms of “Lem” to the lead single “Sudden Moves”, Bicyclops embeds his voice in surging electronics and ambient washes, tracing a path from the intimate to the anthemic over the course of the 9 tracks. While born from demos written largely before the pandemic, the album bears the marks of the last two years, exploring the ways we hold on to memory and to each other in the face of the rising unknown.

Listen to Marooned below