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Auny · 2026
Perfect World alongside the three instrumentals created for it and layered into its mix: Battlefield, Hum, and Warcry.
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the character
Rebel
the one painting the wall
A street artist working at night, after rain, in parking lots and underpasses and on subway platforms. Every mark in this record’s world is hers, and the cobalt-blue paint on her face and hands is how you know it.
She does not narrate the song, she illustrates it. Each stanza pairs a good thing with a bad one happening at the same moment, and her job is to paint the good half onto a world delivering the other half behind her: a rainbow sprayed on a rooftop while a tornado closes in; her crying on a kerb while a lit window across town holds two people celebrating, the two joined by a trail of her own blue paint.
Her register is weary defiance, not triumph. She keeps painting and it keeps getting painted over. The last line of the song is “there’s no such thing as a perfect world”, and her answer to it is to sit on a bench and watch a council worker roller flat grey across her mural, one stencilled bird escaping the edge.
the making
Battlefield, Hum, and Warcry were created for Perfect World and layered into its mix. Battlefield is the full-band take, with bendir, darbuka, upright bass, and harmonium. Hum is the sparse take, with duduk, oud, and glass.
Warcry combines those two takes with wordless layered humming. Perfect World remixes that combination against the vocal take. All four were built on August 2, 2026.
Auny wrote the lyrics: eight stanzas, no chorus, humming between them, and a spoken outro. The first four stanzas move from good to bad; the next four reverse that direction. Ordinary joy and disaster happen at the same time, ending with the line: there's no such thing as a perfect world.
The cover repeats Rebel's peeling mural across four receding arches, revealing a gold sun and night sky beneath, with a stencil dove escaping toward the streetlight: one song, four layers. Auny finished the cover typography in Adobe Express.
tracklist · 4 tracks
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