I never want to be pigeonholed into one thing – that’s so boring to me. “I think it shows different sides of me and my music, and what I can do. You think you’re gonna get a nice little indie song and then things take a darker, more distorted route. “It sort of revealed itself as I started writing it, but what I love about it is how it’s unexpected. “I’m not sure I had an exact vision,” he says, diving deeper into the record itself. Life has been insane for us all over the past few years now, and I think everyone’s had so much to think about and reflect on. “It’s me trying to figure out the world and make sense of it as much as I can, whilst also driving myself crazy in the process. ”I like to look at records as an exploration of the current stage in my life,” Fraser tells Atwood Magazine. ![]() In so seamlessly weaving these themes into his songs, this EP comes to truly feel like a snapshot of modern life. As Fraser comes into his own version of young adulthood, he explores topics as wide-ranging as gentrification, industrialization, climate change, and disinformation, with his own dealings with anxiety, insecurity, relationships, and self-love. It comes as no surprise that 2030 Revolution is Fraser’s most socially conscious and critical effort yet – even if it does come only two years after his debut. The older we get, the more we feel the world crashing down on us – and the more we feel the impact of those hot-button issues that so easily consume casual conversation. “Fraser’s debut is an experimental commentary on the anxieties of the modern world, whilst yearning for the simpler days of his childhood,” Joshua Evans wrote for London-based publication Vingt Sept in late 2020, ahead of The Storm’s EP release. Unbridled energy, charged lyricism, and raw emotion have come to be his friends over two EPs (2020’s The Storm and 2021’s The World Isn’t Big When You Know How It Works) – and through it all, Fraser has balanced his own personal experiences with observations of the greater world at large. Actively releasing music for the past two years now, 20-year-old Scottish artist Dylan Fraser has found his voice in achingly vulnerable, nuanced self-reflections and sonics that are at once irresistibly catchy and relentlessly churning. Released Augvia Asylum Records UK, 2030 Revolution is a visceral alt-pop reeling through the trials of our time, perceived through the lens of an artist in the throes of his own journey of growth and self-discovery. My dear, we’re not gonna make it out of it It’s past the point of any kind of resolution You can pack your bags and try to run, but you cannot stop what’s come undone – “ 2030 Revolution,” Dylan Fraser 2030 Revolution – Dylan Fraser (? © Ho Hai Tran) Locked inside some big frustration game And none of us are well enough to quit, to play Face-to-face just isn’t quit the same But both of us have plugged ourselves straight into the maze And I wish that we could take just what we need But instead, we like to bite the hand that feeds But I wish that we could see it from a different, sane advice We don’t care unless there is a fire I guess we’re all in for a 2030 revolution Well, there’s no point in getting upset, Balancing a sense of helplessness with guarded optimism and hope, Fraser’s 2030 Revolution is an urgent and unapologetic four-track coming-of-age reckoning with our modern age. ![]() Channelling the chaos and turmoil of recent years, Fraser lends an electric energy to his escapist-laden existential crisis, inviting listeners to join together over our collective misery, uncertainty, trepidation, and cynicism as we stare down the barrel of the 2020s. “ G onna see if it’s good to get lost in the woods gonna hope they don’t make a human out of me,” Dylan Fraser sings in “Apartment Complex on the Eastside,” the feverish opening track off his recently released third EP.
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