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His best album yet. The vocal effects and guitar add a another dimension to some of the catchiest goth-electronic instrumentals. A witch-house masterpiece.
Favorite track: Heaven is a State of Mind.
"A strong new set from a legend of underground American music.” – Nina Protocol
☆ NPR's Albums of The Week 10.31 ☆
“Chugging drum machines, gloomy waves of synth, and Egedy’s voice deep and low—a sad spectre crooning from the shadows… Pictureplane delivers the goods over the course of the album’s bewitching 40-minute run.” — Bandcamp
"romantic and sinister" – STEREOGUM
“For nearly two decades, Travis Egedy—better known as Pictureplane—has been weaving his own strange and beautiful world across music, art, and fashion.” – HighClouds
“Pictureplane configures the moody and aggressive into the cool and accessible.” – Treble
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Pictureplane’s music has always lived in the shadows between extremes—where noise and melody, darkness and light, anarchy and ecstasy collide. For nearly two decades, the Brooklyn-based producer and visual artist born Travis Egedy has created music that feels both raw and otherworldly, a singular voice in underground culture.
Growing up in Santa Fe, NM before immersing himself in Denver’s famed DIY hub Rhinoceropolis, Egedy developed his vision in a space where art and music bled together, shaping him as both an artist and community-builder. Now a longtime fixture of New York’s underground, he has collaborated with artists like Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, produced clothing collections for Lil Peep and The Distillers, and toured the world with artists like HEALTH, Crystal Castles, Oklou and Sega Bodega, all while building an influential catalog that remains impossible to pin down.
His new album Sex Distortion continues that arc. Recorded largely in the solitude of his Brooklyn studio but refined with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men) and Mike Birnbaum, and mastered by Joe LaPorta (Sterling Sound), the record leans into deep-register vocals, punching Italo synths, and foggy lo-fi drum machines. Gothboiclique’s Yawns contributes guitar on the title track, but the album is otherwise a distilled vision of Pictureplane: distorted and damaged love songs, romantic, yet witchy anthems shrouded in haze, sparkling neo-gothic dance music that feels both intimate and larger-than-life.
Egedy describes it as “a gothic romance”—music for late nights and liminal spaces, where vulnerability and power walk side by side. It’s another evolution from a singular artist who has spent nearly twenty years building a radical world of his own.
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released October 31, 2025
Written, recorded and produced by Travis Egedy
Mixed by Ben Greenberg & Mike Birnbaum
Mastered by Joe LaPorta
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Cool mix of cold wave / industrial guitar sound, beats, loud bass and ethereal - electronic sounding voice. Some songs are definitely bangers. Great athmospheric transitions between the more "agressive" songs. Yamnah
A stellar cast of artists put their own shadowy spins on recent Bestial Mouths material—toward the goth club floor or into pure noise. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2021
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I've 'experienced Health's new Conflict DLC at a listen party, and It's all It's cracked up to be. This, turning into a Rat Wars part 2. as an album, was a really 'Interesante' idea, and rounds up Rat Wars saga into a whole deluxe experience (and that's not even counting the fact that It's currently 'Rat Girl Summer'). Apparently I can't get enough of it. dxn66