Ajimal shares towering new track "Apathy / Apatheia" from forthcoming debut album [Premiere]

What starts out with a simple piano introduction steadily grows and expands, soaring to towering proportions. Tackling ideas of "naivety and youthful idealism in observing a complex world", the track sails with an unfailing sense of drive and optimism that it's impossible not to feel engaged by. Haunting words and lingering string refrains give "Apathy / Apatheia" a bittersweet tinge that makes the whole track all the more endearing.

"The album is a large-scale collaboration with 51 musicians across 7 tracks," Ajimal says of his debut record. "The songs came together under the theme of childhood, and I wanted to look at what it means to be a child – and indeed what it means to be an adult – because experiences are so enormously different depending on a whole range of things, including but not limited to the time period in which we’re alive, geography, gender, wealth, conflict, health, education, politics... and a mass of situational factors beyond anything my brain can fathom."

"On the one hand we have an extended period of ‘childhood’ in that we live in a Western democracy, we can study and go off gallivanting and exploring," he continues. "Most of the time we’re not required to support the families we leave and don’t need to immediately take over a family business, or work in the fields or in factories. We have contraception and we delay starting and raising families of our own, so there’s this extended time which is free of ‘adult responsibility’."

Stream "Apathy / Apatheia" below.