RELEASED FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2025

Sadness continues his signature approach of pairing shimmering, sorrowful melodieswith moments of crushing distortion, all laid over spacious, atmospheric production.

In Tortuga, Sadness doesnt just compose musicit opens a portal. Each track driftslike mist over forgotten shores, where sorrow breathes in soft pulses and distortioncrashes like distant waves.

The title track, Tortuga, sets sail on shimmering riffs and reverb-drenched wails, ahymn to beauty slowly fading. Lana aches like a memory you cant quite hold, itsmelodies delicate as falling ash. With Ausente, raw emotion surges to the surfacegrief blossoming into grandeur, chaos into catharsis.

The atmosphere is vast, almost sacred. Echoes stretch across time, vocals melt intothe wind, and the lines between dream and despair blur. Its not darkness for its ownsake, but a light that flickers, fragile and eternal.

Tortuga is a shipwreck of the souladrift, aching, and strangely at peace.