Ambient composer Lawrence English is back with a brand new album. The Rest is My Ghost, out August 7 via Room40, forms a sort of end to a trilogy of albums, alongside 2014's Wilderness of Mirrors and 2016's Cruel Optimism.

Check out the song "Sodium Vapour Halo" below, alongside a video from Emma Northey.

English was heavily inspired by concepts of "nostalgia," with the artist going on to explain:

"Nostalgia is not an ideology, though in this moment, we could be mistaken for thinking it might be just that. Over the past years, the idea of nostalgia has been filtered through various political and technological lenses and has become a tool used for forgetting, rather than remembering. Instead of embracing histories’ complexities and inconsistencies, this version of nostalgia seeks only singular recollection. This contemporary phenomenon of nostalgia has become a methodology at best, and a weapon at worst, used to erode the past and project forward a collapsed and unimaginably sanitised version of things, places, and ways of being from former times ... [The Rest Is My Ghost] is a record that considers the weaponisation of nostalgia for the purposes of cloaking possible futures."

Lawrence calls this weaponization of nostalgia "Acid Nostalgia," which is also a name of one of the tracks on the album. "I offer it as a shorthand to describe the de-contouring of the future through a corrosive fixation on a flatten rendering of the preceding times," he explains.

This record follows an incredibly prolific era for English (as if that's anything new). In 2025 alone he put out three projects, and this month he has a new work coming out with Werner Dafeldecker.

The Rest is My Ghost is out August 7. Pre-order here. Full tracklist:

1. 大
2. Acid Nostalgia
3. Eclosion
4. Sodium Vapour Halo
5. Grey's Shadow
6. One Line Sky
7. Metabolic City
8. Aerial Cable
9. Hack
10. GhostType
11. One Line Sky (alone)
12. Sodium Vapour Halo (alone)