One of the more peculiar names that we’ve had come through lately, e4444e is the project of Newcastle-based bedroom-producer Romy Church. Since 2015, he’s been churning out bizarre nuggets of experimental-pop, and he’s back today with an immersive new cut called ‘Wolves’.

After opening with the ramshackle twang of an acoustic guitar, ‘Wolves’ broadens with some warm keys and a crunchy backbeat, as Romy weaves a jittery melody in his sandy voice. While ‘Wolves’ feels like it could be a folk song (with a hint of 90’s indie-rock in there) at its beginning, e4444e’s experimental tendencies slowly reveal themselves as the track meanders onwards. It’s subtle at first, with a humming synth that splutters beneath the track momentarily, but these glimpses of weirdness gradually become more and more prominent, and all the more dizzying. By the halfway point, there’s a swirl of ethereal noise floating around the peripheries of the track, and at the track’s climax the amounting layers of noise have transformed 'Wolves' into a mesmerising soundscape, the only constant being Romy’s earnest vocals which are now enveloped by this surreal haze. As the layers dissipate at the song’s conclusion, ‘Wolves’ teases at returning to where it began - however, things are different now, and as the track trips on its own feet as it winds down, there’s a sense that the destination was less important than the sonic journey we just took.

Speaking about the track, Romy shares “‘Wolves’ for me is a little song that hints describing a lot of things and their motion in the world, trying to connect streams to things. The song is short and little in its scope, like a fox or a simple sage. The truths are kind of dry and airy and the sounds float around them. Doesn't go very far, doesn't try to either."