For Sega Bodega, the veil between worlds is thin. On his third record, Dennis, consciousness and oblivion, dreams and reality, bleed into one.

Salvador Navarrete has always created space for things to exist in curious friction. The release of his 2020 debut album Salvador and its successor, Romeo, introduced a reinvention of dance music driven by a kind of dream-logic which addled the mind but made sense to the body. Even when he stretches synths to their gleaming extremes, striving toward a vision of a future we haven’t caught up with, his voice is still tender and undefined like the outline of a memory.

Navarrete’s ambitions aren’t easily contained. His irreplicable sound has been woven into the production of pop disruptors including Eartheater, Caroline Polachek and Shygirl, on her Mercury Prize-nominated record Nymph. Alongside co-founding the underground music collective NUXXE and contributing production to Björk and Rosalía’s collaborative single “Oral”, he has also formed the project Kiss Facility with Emirati-Egyptian artist Mayah Alkhateri – yet another avenue of his expression. In his career, he has known lifetimes; the challenge he rises to for his third album is to contain a lifetime to a single night and day.