AFTER

There’s a lot to hold in the disorienting seconds between being asleep and waking up: the dream you just had that has already slipped through your fingers, the impending reality of the day about to break, the surreal moment you’re in right now. Yaz Lancaster’s AFTER finds a home in fuzzy places like those, where memories are just behind a window pane.

Their 2023 debut album, AmethYst (people places) highlighted their shimmering, translucent, and nostalgic approach to music. Out Nov 7th, 2025 with PTP Vision, AFTER builds on this, taking gossamer threads of melodies and weaving them into hazy sonic worlds rooted in questions about perception. Unbound to any rules or limitations on genre, the artist presents a cohesive melding of experimental composition, RnB-tinged pop, noise, “emo ambient,” improvisatory collaborations, and clubby references across 14 tracks to conjure a sense of reverie.

Yaz recorded AFTER while in-residence at Pioneer Works in Winter 2025, and the album synthesizes their post-genre, open-minded, and collaborative process. It also offers a collage of Yaz’s musical practice, swerving between the many sound worlds they live in. The album opens with shuddering notes that gradually become an expansive pasture; just a couple songs later, “Signs” takes on the form of a classic pop song. Luminescent noise also appears, too, with tracks like “Limerence” and “dream/sweet II” shrouded in static, contorting melodies and rhythms into dream sequences. It isn’t about finding one genre or style to adhere to — it’s about refracting light in all directions.

Ultimately, AFTER is a rumination on memory. Themes of nostalgia, perceptive realities, and intimacies live both explicitly and abstracted in the textural soundscapes, obfuscated sampling, and purposefully degraded production techniques. Dreams and dreaming are conceptually salient to the album, with each track engaging with the ways we remember, misremember, invent, and hold/release truths.

First single “Sillage” features ambient #hopecore savant Vines/Cassie Wieland (vocals), and Yaz’s closest artistic collaborator gg200bpm (Korg CX-3 Organ); with Yaz on violin, electric guitar, and electronics. It was sonically optimized by GENG PTP