PARAFRAME - Metropolis

The Future is what Pavel Khvaleev does … until perhaps he doesn’t. Are we about to shatter a decade-long universal truth? Well, a little bit. Pavel’s fifth longform takes both name and inspiration from Fritz Lang’s iconic Metropolis - a breathtaking vision of retro-modern grandeur, meeting expressionist dystopia, high above cloudscraping edifices and stark industrial backdrops. That however was as so close to a hundred years ago as to make little difference. Pavel, by contrast, only began work on his ‘Metropolis’ after the release of his last two studio albums (‘Inhale’ and ‘Exhale’), back in 2021. 

To do so, he’s drawn on a wellspring of collaborators from the pool of actors, singers, songwriters and voice artists he’s built up over twenty years of film and musicmaking. To put that into ‘Metropolis’s context, it includes Ryan Masson (soon to be seen in season 2 of The Last of Us) and the recent Grammy nominated singer Haley Johnsen. 

Tracklist:

01. Bird Life (with Avis Vox)
02. Breathe
03. We Are The Only Ones
04. Mermaids
05. Solid Breaker (with Denton Thrift)
06. Panic
07. Feel It Now (featuring Haley Johnsen)
08. Close To Me
09. Son Of Earth (featuring Ryan Masson)
10. Radiance
11. The Secret Place
12. Move