Pictureplane’s music has always lived in the shadows between extremes—where noise and melody, darkness and light, anarchy and ecstasy collide. For nearly two decades, the Brooklyn-based producer and visual artist born Travis Egedy has created music that feels both raw and otherworldly, a singular voice in underground culture.

His new album Sex Distortion (Music Website) which continues that arc, is out today. Borrowing the name from an El-P lyric, it was recorded largely in the solitude of his Brooklyn studio but refined with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men) and Mike Birnbaum, and mastered by Joe LaPorta (Sterling Sound). It leans into deep-register vocals, punching Italo synths, and foggy lo-fi drum machines. Gothboiclique’s Yawns contributes guitar on the title track, but the album is otherwise a distilled vision of Pictureplane: distorted and damaged love songs, romantic, yet witchy anthems shrouded in haze, sparkling neo-gothic dance music that feels both intimate and larger-than-life.

Today, he releases the video for “Bitter Blossom” which was recently shot in New York City. The track plays into the brooding, nocturnal energy of the record at large — a fitting recipient for the Halloween release date.