SONNY ISM - "CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS" LP

NORTHERN UNDERGROUND: ‘Clock Without Hands’ unfurls as a journey through fatherhood, change and loss. After Sonny Ism learnt that he was to become a father, he began recording the album with a new found post-Covid inspiration. 

The writing process quickly kicked into gear with tracks like ‘This Time’ and ‘Visions of Melbourne’ coming to life; pseudo peaks into the future and notions of moving back to Australia after living in Scandinavia for the last 7 years. Accompanied by the rowdy and tapey deep house nodds of ‘Aries Door’ ‘Cbd Nights’ and ‘Obscura’, the album breaks into the soothing ambient calm of ‘Clock Without Hands’ and ‘Solastalgia’ - a musical commentary on negatively perceived environmental change.

Tragically, in March 2022, Sonny Ism and is wife lost their daughter Astrid at 22 weeks to stillbirth. ‘Cant Remember Forgetting You’ paints the agony and grief of pregnancy loss and explores the complex and antiquated way in which society processes it. ‘Clock Without Hands’ is named, inspired by and dedicated to his daughter Astrid as a collection of work frozen in time, a musical dear diary from the little time he shared with her.