Unsound Commission Connects Rainy Miller, Lauren Duffus, Bianca Scout and 2k88 for New Album

A commission from Kraków’s Unsound festival set the terms. Polish producer 2k88 was tasked with bringing together British counterparts, and the result is a full-length album arriving July 9. ‘Everything Always Changes, For We’re Truly Here’ credits Rainy Miller, Lauren Duffus, and Bianca Scout alongside 2k88, a group of artists who arrived at the project with distinct histories but no obvious common ground. The work of finding a shared language became the record itself.

2k88 built a sonic framework around a single, specific image. He pointed to a dance scene in Tadeusz Konwicki’s 1965 film Salto, a Kafkaesque drama where a man performs a strange, dislocated routine in a ballroom. The movement is never fully explained. It hovers between liberation and disturbance. “I like listening through images and seeing through sound,” 2k88 said. That collision of senses shaped the album, pushing the material away from straightforward collaboration and into something less predictable.

The first single, ‘Poetic Fallacy’, pieces together fractal R&B and electronic inquisition. Voices slip through the mix like visitors, never quite at home. Rainy Miller’s vocal and production instincts, honed across rap and half-lit ballads, sit alongside Lauren Duffus’s weightless melancholy and Bianca Scout’s haunted, sample-warped textures. 2k88 binds them without smoothing over the tension. The result feels like a conversation where pauses matter as much as words.

The album arrives without grand declaration. It is simply the record these four made, under a specific set of conditions, with a film scene still flickering in the background.