Tracklist:

1. His Masterpiece
2. Lebanon Rising
3. Everything
4. Tear Gas
5. That Morning

‘Inspired by the story of Claude Lantier from Emilie Zola’s L’Ouvre (Commonly translated to ‘His Masterpiece’), the song charts the plight of an early impressionist painter in Paris whose works are unappreciated and gawked at by the Parisian artistic elite who are still tethered to the Romantic trend in painting. Lantier (whose character is based on Paul Czanne) becomes madly obsessed in a painting which he believes to be his masterpiece and the ultimate demonstration of his talent and genius; an obsession which leads to his eventual, self-inflicted demise. The song is ultimately about alienation, bitterness and the struggle of creativity’.