Lo-fi producer, rapper, and multi-instrumentalist Nathan Kawanishi was looking for a new challenge after the breakout success of Nostalgia, his debut LP with Nettwerk Music Group. Nostalgia, a pandemic project that reflected on his time in Japan, rocketed Kawanishi from rising producer to an important new voice in lo-fi hip hop. Kawanishi could have leaned into the shimmering, blissed-out sound of Nostalgia, but instead he pushed himself to explore every corner of the lo-fi space. Inspired by the Hegelian concept of thesis and antithesis, he created a two-part concept album. Iconoclasm (Thesis) (11/25/22), and Splashes of Ink (Antithesis) (3/10/23) represent yet another creative leap into the unknown for Kawanishi. The two-part album is the biggest insight into Kawanishi’s taste and personality yet. Now, following his solo folk singer/songwriter EP, Nathan returns with a hip-hop split single featuring rapper Malaman. About the EP, Nathan says, "A couple of verbose raps. While there’s an undercurrent of dystopian energy throughout, I wrote it with the subconscious understanding that humans have always been drawn to apocalyptic theories and projections. Perhaps this is like the boy who cried wolf, and this generation’s grave existential threats are more real than previous ones. It certainly feels that way at times. I don’t know, I just make music." About the focus track "Entropy", Nathan says, "Nathan teams up with friend & superior rapper Malaman for this song. The beat took 3 iterations to get to this point. I ended up capturing a lot of conflicting and disparate sounds throughout, much like an audial collage. The lyrics speak for themselves." About the additional solo rap single "abstract nerd rap", Nathan says, "I’m not sure if this is anything more than me using complex rhyming patterns and consonance to justify being a curmudgeon about having to exist alongside relatively unregulated technological and algorithmic advancements. I’d like to think it is, though."