Imaad Wasif – Superconsciousness

Limited edition 180 gram high fidelity vinyl with lyric insert and black polylined dust sleeve. Imaad Wasif returns with Superconsciousness, a sweeping new body of work that captures the wide emotional spectrum of an artist in transformation. Known as an enigmatic solo artist, long-time member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and frontman of recently reunited slowcore legends lowercase, Wasif has spent the last two years in near-constant motion – touring, writing, rebuilding, and reconnecting with parts of himself he thought he’d left behind. The album was conceived and completed between 2022 and 2025, in the quiet moments between storms – skirting waves of disillusionment with a world in crisis and written in the margins while Wasif toured as the fourth member of Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Cool It Down. The timeline reached its breaking point when his town of Altadena burned in the Eaton fire, displacing him in its aftermath. In between it all Wasif found himself writing compulsively, often on guitar or piano in temporary homes, chasing the thread of something raw and unguarded. What began as scattered fragments – sound sketches, lyrics pulled from coat pockets, trance-like raga motifs, late-night meditations on god consciousness and self-erasure – slowly cohered into a record about belief, detachment, grief, and spiritual rupture. These songs, and the album as a whole, crystallize a moment where every version of Wasif merge into something startlingly direct. Even with the scale of collaborators involved (Garrett Ray (Vampire Weekend), Heather McIntosh (Elephant Six Collective), Bobb Bruno (Best Coast, Nothing), Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dylan Fujioka (Chelsea Wolfe), Rocco DeLuca and producer Lewis Pesacov (Julius Eastman, Wild Up), the album feels deeply personal, as if each track is carved from the same interior space. It’s a work that gathers every fragment of the past few years and refracts them into something symphonic, spiritual, and emotionally electric. It is both a culmination and a new beginning, the sound of an artist walking through fire toward something even more luminous on the other side.