Sex Distortion by PICTUREPLANE

Pictureplane’s music has always lived in the shadows between extremes—where noise and melody, darkness and light, anarchy and ecstasy collide. For nearly two decades, the Brooklyn-based producer and visual artist born Travis Egedy has created music that feels both raw and otherworldly, a singular voice in underground culture.

Growing up in Santa Fe, NM before immersing himself in Denver’s famed DIY hub Rhinoceropolis, Egedy developed his vision in a space where art and music bled together, shaping him as both an artist and community-builder. Now a longtime fixture of New York’s underground, he has collaborated with artists like Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, produced clothing collections for Lil Peep and The Distillers, and toured the world with artists like HEALTH, Crystal Castles, Oklou and Sega Bodega, all while building an influential catalog that remains impossible to pin down.

His new album Sex Distortion continues that arc. Recorded largely in the solitude of his Brooklyn studio but refined with Ben Greenberg (Uniform, The Men) and Mike Birnbaum, and mastered by Joe LaPorta (Sterling Sound), the record leans into deep-register vocals, punching Italo synths, and foggy lo-fi drum machines. Gothboiclique’s Yawns contributes guitar on the title track, but the album is otherwise a distilled vision of Pictureplane: distorted and damaged love songs, romantic, yet witchy anthems shrouded in haze, sparkling neo-gothic dance music that feels both intimate and larger-than-life.

Egedy describes it as “a gothic romance”—music for late nights and liminal spaces, where vulnerability and power walk side by side. It’s another evolution from a singular artist who has spent nearly twenty years building a radical world of his own.

Travis Egedy, a.k.a. Pictureplane, made his name chasing unpopular realities and alternate truths across various media.