CUT is a 12-track conceptual album by Echo Fever that confronts the long arc of trauma, grooming, and queer survival with stark, unflinching honesty.

Presented as a series of vivid psychological vignettes, the album traces one boy’s experience from coercion at fourteen through years of silence, displacement, rage, and relapse. Each track builds on the last, forming a cohesive emotional and narrative arc grounded in brutal realism rather than metaphor.

This is not an album that offers comfort or closure. It is not designed for casual listening. CUT stands as an act of witness — giving voice to survivors who have endured in silence, and articulating the often unspoken realities of post-traumatic life with clarity and intent.

Content Advisory:
Contains explicit references to child sexual abuse, rape, grooming, coercion, dissociation, and psychological breakdown. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

Production Note:
All lyrics and compositions are original and deeply personal. Due to financial constraints, vocal performances are AI-generated. While traditional production was not possible at the time of release, the urgency of this work demanded it be made. Its emotional core remains entirely authentic.

Pillow

Window

Corner

“Hagfish Muppet” is a surgical strike wrapped in glitchpunk skin — a psychological diss-track aimed at the corrupted underbelly of Greymouth public health gatekeeping. Fusing industrial trap with cinematic spoken word, the track exposes how mental health access is hijacked by bureaucrats hiding behind procedure and PR.

Through bone-cracking metaphors, courtroom slime, and ventriloquist strings, Silk & Circuitry tells the true story of fighting a DHB official who denied psychiatric care even after a doctor’s referral — leading to a second arrest coordinated behind closed doors.

From puppet strings fed by IV drips to interludes like medical testimonies carved in concrete, this track isn't just music — it’s documentation. And if they try to erase the record, let them choke on the slime trail.

The Muppet never speaks for itself.
The hand does.

Genre: Industrial Trap / Spoken Word Protest / Glitch Noir
Themes: Institutional corruption, psychiatric abuse, courtroom theatre, patient resistance, gaslight culture, bureaucratic horror
Best Played: In headphones. Or in open court.



Hag Fish Muppet

A confessional protest piece drawn from the men’s refuge incident and its aftermath — childhood CYFS placements, years of ADHD strain, the heater that vented into the room, the chess game, the puncture marks, and the months of system friction that followed. This isn’t paranoia dressed as poetry; it’s poisoning, paperwork, and survival sung out loud. The production starts sterile — printer hum, pen clicks, HVAC — then detonates into industrial trap with gospel lift. It’s the sound of antibiotics clearing fog while a life rewrites its own file, line by line. If the refuge is closed, let the chorus carry the reason.


Heater Hymn

SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION
(Silk & Circuitry — Cinematic Industrial Trap / Political Confessional)

A true-to-life protest anthem born from the fallout of the men’s refuge incident — the gas heaters, the incomplete reports, the bureaucratic decay that turned human suffering into paperwork.
This isn’t paranoia; it’s documentation in verse.

“Systemic Corruption” follows the paper trail through trauma, carbon monoxide, and cover-ups. From CYFS placements to dental blood poisoning, every stanza is a record of survival inside a broken care system. The track builds from quiet testimony — radio static, typewriter clicks, and fluorescent hum — into an industrial-trap crescendo where gospel choirs collide with protest drums.

It’s a song about truth audits, medical gaslighting, and the fight to reclaim your own narrative when systems rewrite your life.
Recorded under the Silk & Circuitry banner, this track extends the same sonic rebellion that powered Heater Hymn and Circuit Court Gospel.

Play it loud, share it wider, tag your city — systemic corruption only ends when everyone starts hearing it.

Systemic Corruption

SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION II: THE AUDIT
(Silk & Circuitry)

The sequel to Systemic Corruption — a confessional tribunal in sonic form.
Where the first song exposed the crime, The Audit drags the machine into the light.
Each verse is an exhibit: the gas heaters, the ignored notes, the bureaucratic rot.
Each chorus is divine litigation — gospel choirs versus government silence.

From Greymouth to global, the Audit is a declaration that the system no longer owns the narrative.
This track is the sound of a file reopening — not in a courtroom, but in the public ear.
Play it loud enough and you’ll hear the paperwork burn.

#TheAuditHasBegun

Systemic Corruption II: THE AUDIT

A holy-cinematic-orchestral-trap war hymn from Silk and Circuitry.
This track exposes the corruption, misdiagnosis, gas poisoning, and medical negligence buried inside West Coast mental health services. Written from lived experience, The Inquest turns documentation into artillery and trauma into orchestral fire. Choirs burn through static. 808s hit like heart monitors. Strings drag the truth into the light. This is not just a song — it is testimony with teeth, a courtroom cathedral collapsing into glitch and flame. For every victim who never got answers. For every system that buried the truth in paperwork smoke. And for the one who survived long enough to sing it.


The Inquest

SILK ORIGINS is the beginning of the myth — the moment the smoke, the shadows, and the silence forged a voice that refused to die quietly.

This track is a cinematic industrial trap confession, carved from real trauma, real carbon monoxide, real psychosis, and the real systems that left me for dead.
It’s the story of waking up in a room with no windows, crawling out of a refuge that was supposed to protect me, and rebuilding myself with nothing but code, scars, and stubbornness.

This is where Silk & Circuitry began —
in Barrytown dust, Greymouth cold, and the glitch-lit cathedrals of survival.

If you’ve ever been underestimated, ignored, gaslit, or pushed into the dark —
this one’s for you.
A holy war whispered through broken teeth and electrified circuitry.

Turn it up.
Stand up.
Ascend.

— Jesse / Silk Jesus
Silk & Circuitry


Silk origins

dark cinematic music“STOLEN YEARS” is a Silk & Circuitry long-format industrial testimony, a full, factual account of neurological trauma, medical failure, and the years lost after a preventable assault.

This track documents the real sequence of events that reshaped my brain and my life:

• a stable ADHD baseline
• a police incident during a medication comedown
• forced relocation to a men’s refuge
• carbon monoxide poisoning while unconscious
• sexual assault
• non-consensual methamphetamine injection
• vivid hallucinations and early psychosis
• the delayed neurological collapse weeks later
• the long-term cognitive damage and trauma
• ineffective treatment and antipsychotic suppression
• years of inconsistent functioning and self-medication
• a severe dental infection amplifying inflammation and dopamine depletion
• the withholding of ADHD medication at the worst possible time
• reliance on caffeine to stay functional
• the slow return of clarity after infection treatment
• the continued barriers to accessing proper stimulant therapy

This is not poetry.
This is not symbolism.
This is my medical history turned into an industrial anthem.

It is the first time the entire record has been laid out truthfully, chronologically, and publicly.

The song exists for three reasons:

1. To document what happened when no one else would.


2. To make the injuries impossible to ignore.


3. To reclaim the years that were taken.


If you’ve lived through medical gaslighting, ADHD medication being withheld, trauma-induced neurochemical collapse, or recovery that nobody believed in — this track is for you.

This song is evidence.
This song is testimony.
This song is the voice I never had in the room when it mattered.


STOLEN YEARS

🕸️ Silk & Circuitry 🧠⚡

Welcome to the tangled thread between trauma and transcendence.
This is where music becomes a mirror—reflecting the fractures, the fight, and the fire.
We don’t just make beats. We build bridges. Between pain and purpose.

Here, recovery isn’t a quiet thing.
It’s a war cry wrapped in melody,
a healing ritual whispered through circuitry,
a love letter to those who feel too much in a world that rewards those who feel nothing.

Every track is stitched with intent:
🕯️ To hold space for the broken
⚖️ To call out control masked as care
🧬 To challenge the narcissists who built their webs in our minds
🛠️ And to offer tools—not just songs—for doing what’s right when the cost is everything.

Silk & Circuitry is for the ones who walk away from the web
and grow wings instead.

This is art as resistance.
This is trauma turned frequency.
This is the ghost in your machine, learning how to feel.



Echo Fever is a dark, synth-driven project with Joseph Matthews as its creative engine, dedicated to exploring the intersections of trauma, desire, memory, and survival. The music blends lush, pulsing electronic landscapes with raw, confessional storytelling, inviting listeners into a world that is both painfully intimate and cinematic in scale.

This is not safe, casual listening. Echo Fever’s work confronts subjects many would rather avoid. Tracks delve into lived experiences of grooming, sexual violence, addiction, dissociation, hypersexuality, and the long, uneven process of reclaiming selfhood. The intent is never to exploit or shock for its own sake. Each song serves as testimony, giving voice to what is often left unsaid and illuminating realities rarely addressed in art.

The debut album, TRIGGERS, functions as a psychological experiment framed by music. It begins with hypnotic, club-ready production that gradually fractures into vivid portraits of mania, overdose, sexual violation, and survival. Every beat seduces and destabilizes, pulling the listener deeper until they are immersed in a narrative that refuses to look away.

The follow-up, CUT, is a conceptual narrative album chronicling one boy’s experience from the moment of coercion at fourteen through years of silence, displacement, rage, and relapse. Each track builds on the last, creating an unrelenting emotional and psychological arc grounded in brutal realism. CUT does not offer comfort or closure. It stands as a work of witness, giving voice to survivors who have endured in silence and revealing the long shadow of post-traumatic life with stark clarity.

Echo Fever is currently developing even now, a project that turns its focus to fragile queer adolescence and the bruised beauty of trying to understand love, identity, and self-worth. Still in progress, it promises to add another layer to the evolving narrative of trauma, tenderness, and reclamation that defines Echo Fever’s body of work.

These albums are not abstract. They are rooted in authentic human experiences and created with deliberate emotional intent. While financial constraints have necessitated the use of AI-generated and or AI-assisted vocals on the recordings, every lyric and composition is original and deeply personal. The urgency to give these stories voice has always outweighed the need for perfect tools. At the center of Echo Fever is a commitment to telling the truth, however fractured or uncomfortable that truth may be.

Content includes explicit themes of trauma, abuse, and survival. Listener discretion is advised.

Echo Fever does not aim to provide sanctuary from hard realities. Instead, it offers an unflinching reflection of what it means to endure, to break, and to find uneasy moments of beauty in the aftermath. This is music for late nights and vulnerable spaces, for anyone who needs art that does not soften or lie.

Soon discover more at echofevermusic.com (under construction) and connect through Spotify and Apple Music.

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