Tyondai Braxton announces new album Splayed Werks
American composer, producer, and professor Tyondai Braxton announces today his new album Splayed Werks with the release of the track UnFS. The album is out on August 21 and marks his first full-length album since the 2022 release of his symphonic work, Telekinesis. It reveals itself as unlike what came before, including 70+ minutes of pure electronics and sound design, comprising mostly sub-five minute tracks recorded in his home studio.
As a collection, Splayed Werks hews to the menu of dance music meets minimalist electronic composition, a throughline that stretches from IDM absurdists like Aphex Twin and Autechre, to contemporary immersives like Mica Levi and Laurel Halo. It’s a world in which the multitude of dirty rhythms strays far outside club-land’s big rooms—though the interplay between the bass-synth and the constantly deviating shuffle on lead single “UnFS” may qualify it as a left field banger. Braxton describes UnFS as “a Rubik’s cube of sound, rough hewn samples covered in slime and a pile of dirty leaves.”
It may be a perfect album for 2026, a time when the sonic landscape continues to fervently embrace increasingly radical hybrids, at once club soundsystem-ready, art-installation-leaning, and music-school-mediated, but also, importantly, intuitive and hand-crafted. The spectrum of Braxton’s ideas and directions reveals a voracious mind at play, changing up without overcomplicating the proceedings.
To coincide with the release of Splayed Werks, Braxton is also announcing first live dates with more to follow:
9/6 Chicago (IL) — Sound & Gravity Festival
9/16 Brooklyn (NY) — Public Records
10/18 Portland (OR) — Holocene
10/20 Seattle (WA) — The Vera Project
10/22 Los Angeles (CA) — Zebulon
10/24 San Francisco (CA) — The Lab
11/13 Columbia (MO) — Extended Play Festival
11/24 Tokyo (JP) — Sogetsu Hall