EbE404 - Cortisol (2026)

"This album is the sound of living through fascism, the worst people in the world, the execution of empathy, and a life being shaped by algorithms and a digital universe that is utterly detached from the real world – the inevitable result of The Attention Economy.

"Cortisol is the stress hormone, and this work traces the rise and fall of it as one meanders between virtual and structural nightmares while finding moments of distraction and respite. Feeling the unprecedented becoming normal and fighting to remain anchored in the real to avoid desensitization.

"Minneapolis has been a strange place to make art in this era, and this captures the horrors and hope of fighting back. This is for The Rebel Loons.” - EbE404

"Functions more as a heartbeat under duress than as anything you'd call a beat. Call it dark ambient with the industrial framing intact rather than sanded down for playlist consumption." - Other Voices