Los Angeles-based Producer, multi-instrumentalist, and film composer Reza Safinia has returned, five years after his last albums, 2021’s paired releases Yin and Yang, with 1/∞, a double album sequenced with each vinyl side “serving to represent one of the four elements: fire, water, air, and earth.” 

Safinia has recently shared “Vapor,” alongside a video, a track which “builds into a dark, dangerous atmosphere.” “Vapor” is Reza’s “meditation on the exhausting choreography of cancel culture.”

Built around the scientific phenomenon of sublimation, where matter bypasses its fluid state and jumping straight to gas, the track translates that into something human. The idea is: “When you can’t speak freely, can’t disagree openly, can’t love your neighbor without a liability clause, intimacy itself becomes impossible. You’re not in a relationship. You’re managing a pressure system.”

The song featured cellist Jac Hoja. The accompanying video, co-directed by John Dill and Reza, works on “disorientation.” It follows Reza as a cab driver on a mission through the interlocking freeways of downtown Los Angeles and comes to an abandoned phone booth at the edge of nowhere with a looping atmosphere.