From 'Headspaces' to 'Reflex Angle' and some incredible work along the way, there are some clear sonic distinctions between the two albums. Can you tell us how and why you feel your style has adapted since releasing Headspaces and help connect our readers on a philosophical/emotional level?

'Headspaces' is largely inspired by my friends and people around me, whereas 'Reflex Angle' is more about my relationship with myself. In 2019 when I wrote a lot of 'Reflex Angle' I was traveling a lot around the US and Australia. I also spent time experimenting with psychedelics. These things brought drastically new perspectives to my understanding of art.

You write with intention, and it’s very evident in your music how you execute your production with surgical precision. Are there any moments in the writing process where you abandon this process and just freeform? If so, can you explain why you feel it’s more important for you to focus on one more than the other?

I’m usually not very precise until the end. Oftentimes I am trying to represent a very specific thing emotionally and am not thinking too hard about how the way a sound will translate across different systems until the end of the process. For example, I may be trying to find mental connections between sounds and moments, sounds related to distant memories. I think that timbre and the way sounds mix together tend to fall into place if I am more emotionally satisfied with them.

As all the tracks are about moments in my own life, I felt like the album kind of tied itself together. A lot of the tracks were started without the intention of being a part of a larger project and were sort of different journal entries about different physical and mental spaces I had traveled. I think for my next solo record I actually want to start all the tracks with the larger project in mind.

With Reflex Angle being the title track, and also a collaboration with your best friend and label partner Frequent there must be some powerful and special meaning behind this piece. Would you care to delve into why this earned its place as the focal point of the album?

We wrote the track together in person during a time when a large part of that self-discovery I mentioned earlier took place. I was at a pretty big low before we met up, and had felt a lot more comfortable with myself over the course of the visit.

The artwork serves as a perfect balance for the album, with each track having a unique visual counterpart which makes this album all the more special. Who did you enlist to design the artwork, and what was the process during the collaboration that aided the visual representation of each track?

I created a good majority of the artwork myself. Viktor helped me with the majority of the typefaces, but I tried to teach myself how to do similar things during that process. I’m pretty proud of my typeface on ‘Nothing To Fear’ and ‘Embrace’. I think I learned a lot of things that will help me create even more specific pieces to match the music in the future.

I understand 'Reflex Angle' is yet another monument in your sonic exploration, and that you strive to refine your vision as your journey unfolds. Can you tell us about what we can expect from the next chapter of Hudson Lee?

I’m trying to take a bit of a step back to learn a lot of things. I just want to absorb as much information as possible and open a ton of projects without exporting, with the intention of simply experimenting. I honestly feel like I’ve already grown a ton since I wrote a good majority of that record, and you’ll hear a lot of the results of this as I tie up loose ends here and there. There are a lot of collaborative works that will see the light of day soon, including a large collaborative project with Frequent, that has been in the works for a few years, that demonstrates the best of what we’ve done thus far. It’s going to be a long while before I complete another solo record I think, as I want to catch up a little more to the place where my artistic preferences have shifted. However I do have a few ideas of what it may sound like and I’ve developed a lot of tools for myself already, to start writing when the time comes.

Thank you for your time!

Reflex Angle is available to buy now, so be sure to experience it in its entirety, and keep an eye on Hudson Lee as he continues to explore the philosophical understanding of music and art.