After previewing new music with four track EP The Grand Designer, Adrian Sherwood delivers a brand new full-length work in August 2025 - The Collapse Of Everything - his first solo album in 13 years and only the fourth in his long career. Meticulously constructed, The Collapse Of Everything sees Sherwood move beyond the mixing desk and take centre stage, pushing his ever adventurous sound into new frontiers.
Whether it’s on his own thrillingly unique solo records, as a band member of groups such as Tackhead, or as the creative force infusing his iconic aesthetic into the long-running and highly collectable On-U Sound label, Adrian’s work as an artist has always paralleled his work as a producer.
Although underpinned by a natural dub sensibility, the music presented on The Collapse of Everything fluidly crosses genre borders and seamlessly fuses a wide range of influences from a lifetime of listening and producing. With long gestation periods, Adrian’s carefully crafted albums are very much worth the wait; his first album Never Trust A Hippy? was snapped up by Peter Gabriel’s Real World label, gathering together a diverse array of talent to make the tracks, including crack Jamaican rhythm section Sly & Robbie, Shara Nelson of Massive Attack and Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali (nephew of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan). Becoming A Cliché featured a different but no less compelling cast, including reggae heavyweights Lee “Scratch” Perry, Dennis Bovell, Little Roy and Bim Sherman, and cemented his popularity in Japan with the chart hit, ‘Animal Magic’. Survival & Resistance was more of a concept album, built around tuned percussion. Supporting this trilogy were the Recovery Time mini-album, and an entire re-work of his second album, re-titled Dub Cliché.
Although Sherwood has been extremely busy in the last few years working with other artists; from remix work for pop artists such as Halsey, full length critically acclaimed dub reconstructions for indie-rock titans Spoon, and Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, or producing critically acclaimed late career albums for reggae icons Lee “Scratch” Perry and Horace Andy (“Midnight Rocker” was heralded the Guardian’s #1 Global album of 2022); Sherwood has not released an album as a solo artist since Survival & Resistance, released almost to the day, 13 years ago.
