Following insomniac experimentation ‘4 A.M.’, London’s Dominic Wolf returns with another other-worldly piece of introspective songwriting and lo-fi production with ‘Tainted Paradise’. It flips the Garden of Eden allegory on its head, but instead of a coupled up Adam and Eve, our character imagines himself alone, looking down the barrel of extinction. “Tainted Paradise is a song which explores the end of our civilisation,” says Wolf, “Scientists are calling it the sixth mass extinction and it is happening right now. We are failing on a political, environmental and social level. The truth is we’re making this planet ill and it will spit us out eventually. With this track, I attempt to collect my thoughts on how I would deal with bearing witness to the aftermath of this extinction, what it would be like being the last man on earth.” As with ‘4 A.M.’, anxiety is clearly a key motivator for this songwriter. There’s an isolated atmosphere within ‘Tainted Paradise’, exacerbated by the spaces between the noodling guitars and nine different snare sounds; all of which heavily dosed in reverb and Wolf’s avant-garde production techniques. If you’re the kind of person who prefers to wind down on a summer’s evening with King Krule, Luke Marzec or Puma Blue, then be sure to add Dominic Wolf to your listening repertoire. - Hannah Thacker