E The Artist presents Six, his debut album for Nyahh Records; an incendiary opus of blown-out electronics and daring sonic abstractions, inspired by the seven seals, that posits E as a daring force within the Irish underground. Garnering a fierce reputation both in Ireland and abroad despite minimal recorded output, the artist known as E instead boasts his infamy on the live circuit. The Nigerian-born, Dublin-based musician impressed over the years with a slew of memorable performances inspired by AfroPunkism, recontextualising contemporary black club genres into their loudest and most intense iterations. Following a brief side quest to Vienna early in 2025, E returned to Dublin relieved by the tangibility in familiarity of his surroundings. This inspired a period of personal reflection on self, mortality and religion in his cramped studio; from these sessions emerged his most substantial body of work to date in Six.
Inspired by the opening of the seven seals in the Book of Revelation, Six acts as a radical departure for E. Opener Idtyek signals this change, a freak folk oddity that ill-prepares you for the road ahead. From Mantras’ obtuse techno through to Rise’s power electronics, E fulfils a listening experience intent on submission rather than interpretation. Dynamic contrasts temper the parameters of its sonic catharsis, a crescendo of geometric flow that challenges convention.
Six also extends the artist’s circle of collaborators. Ruby Eastwood and Mel Keane lend Bridge their poetry and creative instability respectively, frequent live collaborator Julia Louise Knifefist douses Blackout with his signature guttural cries while Kraf’s obscured lyrics gives Lint a wayward edge. Bulgarian Umbrella offers the record its most substantial contribution on Drogo, a twenty minute meditation on life and death which forms the core inspiration for the album as a whole. Six exists as a world obsessed with rationalising finality, a disorienting space between certainty and myth that stands as E The Artist’s most ambitious and strangely beautiful work to date.
