Anterograde is the 12th and final song on the Phasedrift Album. Sweet melodies and lyrics interplay in this song, leading to a climactic conclusion to the collection of songs.

Phasedrift

Anterograde

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all of ROADS GOES EVER EVER ON song in one place.

ROADS GOES EVER EVER ON - collection

ROADS GOES EVER EVER ON - Acoustic v2

FEEL LIKE SOMEONE AGAIN

next to u

is a tribute to frayed guitars, busted voices, and those who keep going when everything else says stop.
It’s not about polish. It’s not about perfect rhyme.
It’s about guts, grit, and that one riff you never forget — even when your hands are shaking.

I see you

Beautiful (Unplugged Acoustic)

A song for the prince and my king, my dad. The words remind me of me and my father’s story.

Changes

Live performance of 'Inhaler' - a brand new track from my upcoming EP, 'Home Grown'.

Joel Gladwell - Inhaler (BBC Music Introducing session)

Live performance of 'In The Morning' - a brand new track from my upcoming EP, 'Home Grown'.

Joel Gladwell - In The Morning (BBC Music Introducing session)

This piece began as a reflection on age, wonder, and the universe. It carries the bittersweet truth that some of us may not live to see the answers we’ve always longed for the moment the sky finally “answers back.”

But it’s also a message of hope. Our place isn’t measured only by lifetimes. It’s carried forward in the songs we write, in the questions we refuse to let go of, and in the wonder we pass down.

The closing nod to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star reminds us that curiosity is timeless from the child’s lullaby to the elder’s last reflection, we are joined by a shared yearning to understand.

This isn’t just about stars. It’s about legacy, belonging, and the truth that even if we don’t grow into tomorrow ourselves, a part of us will.

Some of us are too late in the day
To see the gates swing open
To watch the sky answer back

But we’ve left our fingerprints
On the glass of the telescope
Our breath fogging the lens
For the next set of eyes

The truth is our place
Isn’t just measured in lifetimes
It’s carried forward in songs
In questions that refuse to die
In the wonder we hand down

So even if I don’t grow into that tomorrow
A part of me will
In the echoes, in the chords
In the starlight that remembers
We once asked

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are

Oh, how we wonder

Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star
How I wonder what you are

Oh how we wonder
What you are

Yes we wonder

Into Two

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