In April of 2018 James Hinton relocated from Brooklyn to isolate himself in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Hinton escaped the overstimulation of New York City thinking the lack of distraction would help him find the focus to complete the album. But he soon discovered the dark side of rural life and came to see it as “existentially scary.” He knew no one and would sometimes go for a month or more without seeing another person. “I think it’s starting to become a bit of a vogue to leave the city for the country but I might serve as a cautionary tale,” he says. “Yes, there is more and better quality time to work on your art, but it can become a prison of your own making. That level of isolation magnified some creeping depression that sent me into a really bad spiral for two years.” The Range's music is moody, transportive, and undeniably rave-infused, and although it is indebted to IDM mainstays like Aphex Twin and grime pioneers, Hinton pushes outside the constraints of any one specific genre. The result is both maximalist and restrained, huge soft synths up against cruising beats to offset the compressed vocals of his carefully chosen clips.