Bristol’s genre-bending maverick SIG SALI conjures a sonic world that’s part dreamscape, part cinematic nightmare, with this intoxicating glimpse into his upcoming Chaos In My Mind EP. ‘Bad Man Horror’ is an electric pulse ripping through the fabric of your subconscious. Co-produced with Freddie Cowan and mixed by Ricardo Acasuso, the track marries cinematic grandeur with indie-rock grit. It’s a visceral purge of emotion, where personal torment is transmuted into electrifying art.

Opening with a tangle of shimmering synth lines and taut guitar riffs, the track pulls you into a surreal underworld. The emotive, vocoder-tinged vocals weave a hypnotic spell, floating over the persistent thrum of an 808 heartbeat. As the song undergoes a surprising key change, it erupts into a fluorescent, 80s-inspired chorus, like a kaleidoscope exploding under a strobe light. Layers of glimmering guitar swells and cascading synths flood the senses, creating a euphoric, almost otherworldly release. SIG SALI’s lyrics, born from vivid, bone-deep dreams, dig into the raw edges of anxiety and the blurred line between reality and subconscious.

“I’ve always had these hectic, vivid dreams since I was a kid—not sleep paralysis, but strange, emotional, recurring dreams that feel so real they shake me to my core. Most of the time, they’re wild and far-fetched, like something out of a fictional movie. But every now and then, they’re so tied to reality that I wake up breathless, completely overwhelmed. One dream in particular really got to me—I couldn’t shake it. I went to work the next day still trembling with anxiety, and it took hours to convince myself it was just a dream. That night, it was still haunting me, so I wrote it down, and that’s how Bad Man Horror was born. The connection between my reality and subconscious in that dream was so intense that once the song was written, I felt this massive relief. Writing it was like therapy and allowed me to process and let go of something I hadn’t realized was weighing on me.”

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