ION returns with his debut EP, "Like A Sickness," a genre-defying exploration into sound, spirituality, and the occult. Less an album than an extended immersive experience, this six-song release is a high-wire conceptual/mojo stunt that only tangentially intersects the five senses. Out now across all digital platforms, Like A Sickness draws you into a deeply immersive, ritualistic experience that, like music, challenges normative notions of what "music" is.
"Like A Sickness" explores the chaos and wisdom of the esoteric, an act of sonic alchemy, to quote ION. The EP trails primal chants, hypnogenic drones, and dislocated beats to work you into a trance, shepherding them through themes of insanity, spiritual disconnection, and ritualistic cleansing. Its shimmering, haunted tracks "Mercurii Ritual" and "Homesick" serve as portals into a realm where time collapses and ageless forces ascend.
A particularly haunting moment arrives on "Lost in Translation," a song sung in ION's native Albanian, mourning the spiritual erosion of ancestral traditions. "Surface Tension," on the other hand, addresses the stifling of everyday life under social control; jagged or fragmented melodies mirror the chaos of psychological imprisonment. The EP ends with "You Hear Her Too?," a sinister meditation on witches as objects of fear and worship.