The Persona’s crowdfunded comic book EP was released on June 17, 2016. “In a World” is an EP in which the songs in a digital album correspond to stories in a print comic book. The music and script were written by The Persona, and the art was illustrated by Austin artists Anissa Bryant and Ruthie Junto.

The A-side is Metaphors, an industrial hip hop anthem written by the Persona while he worked on an offshore oil rig. Ruthie Junto’s comic shares vignettes of The Persona’s time working in the Gulf of Mexico.

The B-side is Passarola, an electro-ambient song that uses images of flight to convey the challenges of committing to change. In the Passarola comic, Anissa Bryant illustrates stories from The Persona’s childhood in which he visits his family by plane.

Comic Book available at https://thepersonamusic.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-world

Passarola

Metaphors

In A World

Happy Leap Day, everyone! To celebrate, I did a remix of one of my favorite holiday horrors: 1969's "Leap Day!" Thanks to Ellie Winnubst and Ben-Darrow Goodman for contributing guitar and bass to the song, and to Ritchard for engineering, mixing, and mastering. And! Super Special Thanks™ to vocal archivist Mike Rose for his contributions to the vocal samples.

Leap Day

"If I write enough lines, I know I'm gonna find it."

The Persona produces post-industrial electronic hip hop: hip hop tinged with electro, house, and industrial, as well as other genres of music; featuring a stage presence that ventures from punk rock attitude to hip hop braggadocio to sly indie irony.

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