Transformation is the title track from the upcoming album Transformation, out January 6th.

This is the longest piece we’ve released so far – and the centre of the record. Everything before it leads here. Everything after it shifts.

Best experienced in one uninterrupted listen.

[LYRICS]

Skin like paper, peeling slow
Ashes falling, seeds will grow
Shadows bending, shapes collide
I dissolve, and then I rise

Transformation, shifting flame
Never ending, never same
Breaking open, shedding skin
Falling out to fall within

Glass is breaking, time stands still
Empty vessel starts to fill
Fading echo, voice unknown
Turn to stone, then turn to bone

Split in two, I recombine
Lose the form, redraw the line
Every fracture, every scar
Maps the place of who we are

Transformation, shifting flame
Never ending, never same
Breaking open, shedding skin
Falling out to fall within

Transformation…
Transformation…
Still becoming…
Still becoming…

Transformation

✦ Bandcamp: https://cruft.bandcamp.com
✦ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/41pnowvb5PaMHZkoWDvotS?si=BJHUq7VITda_x1o9TbVHRQ

Cruft begins in the quiet places where ideas breathe before they have names. A pulse, a texture, a strange harmony appears, then another and soon the room tilts toward something neither of us had planned. Some nights the music arrives in a rush as if it has been waiting. Other times it circles slowly, testing its shape until it chooses to step forward.

No path repeats. Guitars crack open the silence one moment, then dissolve into synth haze the next. Brass glints at the edges like distant signals. We follow clues more than rules and trust the sound to guide us further than intention ever could.

AI may offer a reflection in the glass - yet the movement, the drift and the sudden leaps belong to Cruft alone.

🎶 Expect the unexpected – the rest reveals itself only when you listen closely.

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