[Cover photo credit to Robin Laananen]

Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer Imaad Wasif has just released his new album, Superconsciousness, via his imprint Voidist Records. The track and video for “We Are Hunters” is out now.

He explains the impetus for the album:

My soul is this album, there for the taking. This album is huge for me. It embodies my hope, my pain, and shines a light on my many contradictions. It is a lens on my disillusionment with the world and a record of personal upheaval that could have easily swallowed me up.

After being displaced by the 2025 Altadena (Los Angeles) wildfire while in the throes of personal upheaval, it took every ounce of his being to complete such a hopeful record.

He shares:

Music for me is the only power that I have, so I’ve chosen my way. This is what I can do for the greater good. I can only hope that my efforts are not futile.

The album features musician friends Heather McIntosh (Neutral Milk Hotel), Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dylan Fujioka (Meatbodies), and Garrett Ray (Vampire Weekend).

Of Wasif’s current single “We Are Hunters”, he says:

[It] starts off floating in a web of narcosis and then plummets at light speed like the man who fell to earth with its pounding heartbeat dragging me along for the ride. The payoff feels like a revolutionary act of joy.

Produced by Lewis Pesacov (Julius Eastman, Wild Up) who previously mixed Wasif’s previous release So Long Mr. Fear, and mixed by Derek Coburn  (Chelsea Wolfe, Spoon), Superconsciousness blends early Electronic influences, layered Rock, and what Wasif calls “goth-folk.”