Tim Horne - 'Transmutation' : new album by Kent-based electronic musician out 8th October 2026 (Coastal Electronauts) | includes the single 'An Ocean Apart' out 10th September

Tim Horne is a Margate, Kent-based musician who uses synthesisers, acoustic instruments and field recordings to compose cinematic ambient and electronic music. After a decade of playing bass, synths and providing backing vocals in a series of bands that included Linear Loveboxx, Inca Maps and Inigo Blue & The System, he self-released two albums of solo modular synth improvisations entitled ‘Rise' (2022) and ‘Clusters' (2023). He has since developed and expanded his sound at the regular live sessions hosted by Coastal Electronauts in nearby Whitstable, culminating in the eight tracks that comprise his new album ‘Transmutation’.

Recorded towards the end of a long-term relationship, ‘Transmutation’ is a nostalgic meditation on contradictory memories of joy and sorrow, as well as a hopeful embrace of change and the future. The recording process became a way for Horne to process complex emotions and reflect on these paradoxical memories.

The track ‘An Ocean Apart’ has been issued as a single today (10th September). “It forms the emotional core of the album and is imbued with paradoxical feelings of distance and closeness, isolation and connection,” explains Horne. “These are contradictory emotions I’ve oscillated between when looking back with unreliable memory and nostalgia.”

Horne is inspired by vintage, contemporary and futuristic sounding synth music, with an added passion for well orchestrated arrangements. Exploring these contrasting sound palettes, he layers flutes and other instruments with analog, digital and modular synths, often processing them to sound somewhat different to the source material. ‘Transmutation’ attempts to transform its themes of nostalgia and melancholia into something new and hopeful.

Horne’s influences include Wendy Carlos, Kraftwerk, Boards of Canada, Sigur Rós, M83, Radiohead, Nils Frahm, Alessandro Cortini, R Beny, Emily Sprague, Ann Annie, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Jogging House and Hainbach.

TRANSMUTATION TRACKLIST

1 Requiem

2 Halcyon

3 Biota

4 An Ocean Apart

5 Volta

6 Folie à Deux

7 Ascension

8 Metamorphosis