From first instinct to finished record.

MOUJ arrived with a voice-and-guitar sketch and no previous recording experience. Imran found the tempo that let his cadence breathe, developed the arrangement, and built the finished production with instrumentalists in Nashville.

A stripped-back sketch became one of the record’s electronic departures. Imran programmed and performed the instrumentation, creating a darker, more expansive counterpoint to the project’s acoustic core.

Imran rebuilt the song through programmed and performed electronic instrumentation, giving it a rhythmic and tonal identity of its own within the wider world of Years in Reverse.

An unguarded garden performance captures the song at the outset. Beside it, the finished master reveals how that first form became a record.

The original demo holds the song in its raw first form. Beside it, the finished master reveals the completed record, with its full production, mix and final weight in place.

The song is first heard in an early performance, before its studio character was fixed. Beside it is the completed record: recorded at Studio Six and mixed at Tape Culture, with its arrangement, performance and final sonic identity in place.