Lukas Laurent - known professionally as Trawlerboy - is a composer and producer. From bombastic, distorted 909-driven electronic to lush and dreamy orchestral arrangements, operating under Trawlerboy, they use sound to make sense of the vast spectrum of human experience and emotion.

Trawlerboy’s upscoming EP Elsewhere is a piercingly intimate portrayal of our innermost desires to escape. Composed of five songs, each distinct in texture and timbre, Elsewhere presents a sonic journeying through otherworldly soundscapes in a quest to reflect the beauty and horror that mark everyday existence. Primarily recorded after a recent move to Seattle, Washington, the EP follows the thematic art of relocation: the sensory experience of being out of place and body.

Their explorations of human experiences of suffering, desire, and isolation in their sonic world is informed by the artistic practices of Francis Bacon and Paul Nash. Nash coined the term “seaside surrealism,” while he lived and worked in Swanage from 1934-36 to describe the uncanny and peculiar qualities of the city’s landscape and architecture. Like Nash’s surrealist landscape paintings, Trawlerboy examines the surreality of life itself through practices of automatism, decoding dreams, and liberating the subconscious. These ideas are translated musically through an jazz-influenced improvisational, non-traditional, and loose structure.