Artist: meander maps

Album Title: interiors

Release Date: May 1, 2026

Genre: Ambient / Drone

Running Time: 33:42 min

Format: Cassette/Digital

Record Label: grainy shapes, LLC

About the Album
Interiors, the debut album from meander maps, unfolds like a faded photograph—warm, worn, and quietly alive. This first release is not only a testament to his sensitivity as a musician, but also a quiet offering — a soundtrack for unprecedented times, long thoughts, and everything that slips between. Anchored in magnetic tape, it drifts through minimalist landscapes where empathy lingers in every loop.

Analog textures hum and crackle, revealing intimate imperfections not as flaws but as fragile truths. Each composition unfolds like a memory revisited, edges fraying, quietly dissolving in the mind. Each track is a slow exhale—patient, personal, and steeped in nostalgia. This is an album that asks listeners to slow down, reflect, and dwell in subtle textures of sound.

Artist Bio
Brian Hawkes, performing as meander maps, is a sound artist exploring the tension between memory and impermanence. He centers his work entirely around magnetic tape, crafting slow-moving textures that feel deeply personal and timeless.

Beyond music, Hawkes works across sound, image, and form, situating this release within grainy shapes, a creative philosophy encompassing painting, photography, and imperfection-driven art. Interiors marks his debut in the ambient music landscape—a collection of intimate tape-loop meditations that hum with fragility, empathy, and restraint.

For Fans Of

William Basinski • Federico Durand • Craig Tattersall

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