Let the Landscape Hold Your Grief
Street date: February 13, 2026 (album pre-order available now on Bandcamp)
Artist: bioPrism (aka Josh Epperly)
Label: Bogue Street Records
Bandcamp: https://bioprism.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-landscape-hold-your-grief-2
SoundCloud (private stream): https://soundcloud.com/bioprism/sets/let-the-landscape-hold-your-grief/s-pjoFyPQxcm2?si=c59bacdd6ce94de590e8a8b5a37ce3ce&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
Drive (mp3, wav files): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10OxIV_6YjLUwOpiwW3ZtY6JkfsHznVR7?usp=sharing
“Let the Landscape Hold Your Grief” is the debut album of Michigan-based electronic artist bioPrism (Josh Epperly). The album was largely written in 2025, a year that dramatically accelerated the loss of wild places, civil liberties, and functional institutions. The same year was also a period of transformation for the artist, who found resiliency within himself and his community. Acknowledging these dual realities, “Let the Landscape Hold Your Grief” is an exploration of chronic grief and a testament to hope amidst chaos. The album represents a journey that the artist repeats many times over – one that begins in isolation and returns again to interrelationship.
The artist mostly departs from the rhythmic structures of his previous releases in favor of ambient and experimental soundscapes. Throughout the album, noise and melody, light and dark, the digital and the acoustic are carefully balanced. This balancing act is apparent in the opening track “everyday sirens”, in which a field recording of tornado sirens is blended with an analog synthesizer that spectrally imitates the field recording. During album development, the artist became fascinated with audio feedback methods, which he harnesses in darker tracks such as “gyre” to express the self-reinforcing nature of anger and anxiety. Acoustic, granular textures offer warmer emotional counterpoints in tracks such as “microcosmos” and “interbeing”. Finally, the album includes collaborations with vocalist Cassandra Cohen on “distances collapse”, vocalist Rachel Epperly on “tidesong”, and percussionist Evan Gedert on “interbeing”.
Tracklist:
- everyday sirens
- distances collapse (feat. Cassandra Cohen)
- obsidian dirge
- microcosmos – lead single
- buried in static
- gyre
- tidesong (feat. Rachel Epperly) – second single
- we were always here
- interbeing (feat. Evan Gedert)
- heaven/void
Credits:
Electronics, composition and production: Josh Epperly
Vocals on “distances collapse”: Cassandra Cohen
Vocals on “gyre”: Kira Wallace
Vocals on “tidesong”: Rachel Epperly
Marimba and vibraphones on “interbeing”: Evan Gedert
Mixing and mastering: Guillermo Pizarro at Vitória Régia Studios
Album art: James Manning
bioPrism (Josh Epperly) is available for interviews
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Label Contact: boguestreetrecords@gmail.com (Austin Oting Har)
Artist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bioprism_music/#
Label Website: https://www.boguestreetrecords.com/
Label Bandcamp: https://boguestreetrecords.bandcamp.com/
