Electronic artist Maria Uzor releases her latest album, Fantasyland.
Written and recorded entirely in the spare room of her flat in Norwich, Fantasyland blends techno, electro, trip-hop, indie and bass into a genre-bending electronic soundscape. The album creates a glitchy world somewhere between the binary code of the digital world and the vulnerable reality of being human.
Maria is the lone resident of Fantasyland, but from the opening track, she leaves the door open for you to explore.
“I wanted to build my own world, largely away from online distractions. There’s an expectation for artists to create music that panders to the algorithm, which I think can be quite damaging in the long run. I didn’t want to do that. To actively buck a trend like that can leave you feeling quite vulnerable. Part of the story of making this album has been a journey back to personal realignment. It’s an ongoing thing, always shifting and rebalancing, but it’s a journey of wonder.”
Maria Uzor
In Fantasyland, Maria builds a world beyond the algorithm, where glitches become something tangible, genre boundaries blur, and the human touch remains.
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