Disruptive art world figure and enigmatic tech prankster Eric Drass (also known as the great Degenerative Artist, ‘Shardcore’) announces his debut solo album ON THE HILL under the artist name DRASS, for release on April Fool’s Day, Weds 1 April 2026, via Death & Praxis Records.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/53ZJeSRFxevDQbsFdtQOTe?si=fx5YU7vCT-GxaIuJh9P_tg
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/on-the-hill/1888351355
YouTube Music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kRLK_d4DykJeV5vrpzElsFZDm3nGysIuc
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/album/948249471
plus pretty much everywhere else...
Known in the fine art sphere as wildly praised disruptive painter and Degenerative Artist ‘Shardcore’, Eric Drass is also an in-demand (if acerbic) global speaker on AI, deep fake, and machine learning tools in art (he’s showed up as a guest expert at the BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and even on telly explaining deep fakes to Ian Hislop).
DRASS is his first solo music project. ON THE HILL was gestated through 2025 in Eric’s secret lair in Sussex (genuinely accessed via a hidden doorway in a bookshelf).
Last summer, DRASS road-tested tracks for ON THE HILL in the ScienceFutures Arena at Glastonbury Festival, his ferocious, also very funny live show culminating with an onstage alien autopsy, which inevitably descended into a chaotic gore fest.
So expect: frazzled glitches, treacle-black state-of-the-world realism meets dazzling psychedelia, dick jokes, old school crunch to the beats, truth bombs, and not one global leader escaping unscathed. ON THE HILL is an ambitious, yet wholly DIY masterpiece that could’ve been scratched onto cell walls by a defiant political prisoner as the hallucinogens wore off.