Fobia (Vinyl LP)

Following up a string of releases on labels such as Mana, Sun Ark, Orange Milk Records and Abyss, Other People are honoured to present the new album Fobia by Argentinian musician and sound artist aylu, real name Ailin Grad.

Inspired in part of Grad's many collaborative projects over the last few years, Fobia sees her collecting and rearranging the music and sounds fostered within these to create an intimate, spiritually charged album that turns personal struggle into collective resistance and resilience. What initially started as a way for Grad to process her own experiences with agora- and claustrophobia, and an attempt to navigate feelings of shame and a perceived demand to keep these feelings bottled up and hidden from the world, she began to realise how mental health struggles are not isolated incidents but part of broader systems of collective suffering and injustice.

This tension and constant pull between fear and joy, light and dark, is present throughout the album. From the strained breathing featured in opening track Yodo echoing the suffocating feeling from claustrophobia interspersed with the lighter textures of Obelisco Elysium and Prospero offering up a sense of relief, to the almost cacophonous, immersive sounds of El Sol Mal, mirroring the complex, often contradictory emotions when navigating mental health challenges.

Fobia invites listeners to move through pain with honesty, finding strength in shared experiences. 

Tracklist:

1. Yodo (Veneno)
2. Obelisco Elysium
3. Desaparicion Incompleta
4. Via Negativa
5. Prospero
6. El Sol Mal
7. Somitas
8. Cometierra
9. Yodo (Remedio)