Australian artist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Braille Face annouces new album 'Skipping Days' out Nov 20th + releases his new single "Pure Entertainment"
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Australian producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Braille Face, the solo project of Jordan White, announces his new album ‘Skipping Days’, set for release on November 20th. The announcement arrives alongside new single “Pure Entertainment”, a restless examination of distraction, political spectacle, and the growing difficulty of separating reality from performance.
Following recent single “<3”, “Pure Entertainment” turns his typically searching songwriting outwards. Where much of Braille Face’s previous work has explored intimate questions around identity, relationships and mental health, his latest track confronts a culture in which outrage, politics and genuine crises increasingly compete for attention within the same relentless stream of content.
At its centre is his concern with the spectacle of modern populism and the exhaustion that comes from being continually asked to watch, react and care. But rather than positioning himself outside that cycle, however, he acknowledges his own complicity in it.
“I think lots of us feel like we're stuck in that scene in a movie where they enter a circus tent full of mirrors, waiting for the real to emerge from the reflection. Pure Entertainment is wrestling within the current ecosystem of populism and barker politics, which are endlessly distracting and keeping us docile in the face of pressing global breakdowns. I've been distracted too, I've looked away, burnt out from my empathy being monetised. How do we search for the real in what feels more and more like performance?”
The single also offers the latest window into ‘Skipping Days’, his first full-length Braille Face album since 2020’s acclaimed ‘Original Cast Recording’. Emotionally turbulent and vividly atmospheric, the wider record continues the project’s collision of intricate electronic production and deeply human songwriting, marking another evolution for an artist who has repeatedly resisted settling into a predictable creative pattern.
Braille Face’s debut album ‘Kōya’ grew from an extreme response to creative stagnation. Feeling disconnected from both his own writing and the wider music industry, he challenged himself to make and release twelve albums within twelve months, deliberately removing expectations and allowing himself to create instinctively.
The strongest ideas from that experiment eventually became ‘Kōya’, moving between delicate piano-led songwriting, folk textures and turbulent electronics. The music attracted the attention of Tim Shiel and Wally De Backer (Gotye), who revived their Spirit Level label to release the record.
He pushed further into personal territory with ‘Original Cast Recording’ in 2020. Written between Melbourne, New York, Oslo and Japan, the album confronted mental health, medication, sexuality and masculinity with striking openness. It was subsequently named among Double J’s Top 50 Albums of the Year, while Braille Face earned support from BBC Radio 6 Music, KCRW, DAZED, CLASH, COLORS Berlin and VICE.
His catalogue has since passed three million combined streams, with individual backing from tastemakers including Mary Anne Hobbs, Guy Garvey and Nemone at BBC Radio 6 Music, Travis Holcombe at KCRW and Zan Rowe at Double J.
Now based in London, Jordan White is also beginning a new phase for Braille Face as a live proposition. Recent performances have brought the project’s carefully constructed electronic world into a more immediate setting, including a UK support appearance with fellow Australian artist Chet Faker.
‘Skipping Days’ arrives six years after its predecessor, but “Pure Entertainment” suggests that Braille Face’s instinct for asking uncomfortable questions remains intact. This time, the lens is widening. Against a backdrop of political theatre, algorithmic distraction and collective fatigue, White searches for something authentic beneath the noise, while recognising just how difficult it has become to look away from the show.
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