Last month, producer Guillermo Scott Herren announced a new album as Prefuse 73, New Strategies For Modern Crime Vol. 1, which will be out in March. He shared lead single “A Lord Without Jewels” from it at the time, and today he’s back with another one, “The End Of Air.”

“I’ve lived in NYC since the 90s but I think during the post-Covid era, most ‘media’ has become obsessed with crime statistics and inflated ‘fear’ over basic human needs,” Herren shared in a press release about his new album. “I wanted to channel this surreal landscape — where crime has become a strange form of entertainment and journalistic distraction into sound.”

“I always have a movie or some random visuals playing on mute behind me in the studio,” he continued. “It could be horror from any era or just an old Fellini film; they tend to be playing on a loop. I will turn around from the mixing board and just stare at the images to get inspired.”

Listen to “The End Of Air” below.

New Strategies For Modern Crime Vol. 1 is out 3/22 via Lex Records.