Antwood

Canadian Tristan Douglas produces conceptually driven experimental club music under the name Antwood. His richly detailed, darkly humorous albums explore themes such as artificial intelligence (2016's Virtuous.scr) and modern-day relationships (2019's Delphi).

Originally known as Margaret Antwood -- a pun on the name of a fellow Canadian, novelist Margaret Atwood -- Douglas gained recognition in the world of electronic music after the release of his 2013 Energy Plaza EP on the Cocobass imprint. The EP was a splashy, angular reworking of club styles ranging from juke to trap to ballroom. His 2015 follow-up, an EP titled Work Focus on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22B.YRSLF%22">B.YRSLF</a> label, consolidated Antwood's mechanically influenced style and garnered more critical praise, despite his deliberately enigmatic Web presence.

After a move to <a href="spotify:artist:7AiamoV760pPGGM5PbOC6X">µ-Ziq</a>'s <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Planet+Mu%22">Planet Mu</a> label, his debut full-length arrived in 2016, at which point he dropped the Margaret prefix. Titled Virtuous.scr, it was inspired by the development of artificial intelligence, a theme familiar to Antwood given his background in molecular biology. Sponsored Content, an ASMR-inspired concept album incorporating subliminal advertising, followed in 2017. A 2019 EP titled Alousia preceded Antwood's third full-length, Delphi, a concept album centered around a lovelorn character of the same name. ~ Simon Spreyer, Rovi