8 is the debut album from London-based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick, and is a climate fiction told in three mediums: music, photography and poetry.

The video for the album’s first single, Vanishing Point feat. Conrad Kira and Elliott Arndt, was created by French CGI artist and art director, Sybil Montet . It captures the corrupted data of a social elite who give up their bodies and migrate to cyberspace to escape climate crisis; only to be destroyed by a super virus by those who were denied entry. The fractal-like poisonous flower reclaims the technological world, infinitely vanishing and re-emerging, as a reference to the album’s title — which visually represents an infinite feedback loop.

Montet describes the visuals as “a vision of dissolution of the self in an ever growing, explosive data emergence - hybridisation between symbols of automation and natural forces, a hypnotic journey guided by dazzling lights.”

Vanishing Point was written and produced by El Hardwick, and features additional beats and production by Conrad Kira, and flute by Elliott Arndt. It was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry, and supported by PRS Foundation's Open Fund.

8 is out on 20 November via 33-33.
Pre-order the album and 40-page book here