With a pressingly mournful urgency, the soundscape resonates with the complex energies enveloping VanderMeer’s novel, the author having invited the duo to create music inspired by 'Absolution' while still a work in progress. Hearing that VanderMeer took inspiration for the 'Absolution' novel from their 'Dreaming of Sleep' album, Tulipomania enthusiastically accepted the challenge. For the music video the musicians/animators utilized multiple processes including thermal printing to create layered textures, resulting an a visual exploration of various states of disintegration, evocative of Absolution’s themes of dissolution and disorientation.