Fragments is the most emotionally intense record that Simon Green has ever had to make. Its no surprise that its also his masterpiece. The album features Jamila Woods, Joji, Kadhja Bonet, Jordan Rakei, OFlynn and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Born first out of fragments of ideas and experimentation, the album ultimately was fused together in a burst of creativity fueled by both collaboration and Greens escape into the wild. The artwork for Fragments is by Neil Krug who returns after creating the art for 2017s Migration.

Fragments is a series of 12 sonic affirmations, featuring some of the hardest and most hip-shaking grooves that Green has ever created. The ballads are perfectly placed throughout; they capture a world in flux and glow with hope. Tides, featuring Chicagoan singer and poet Jamila Woods, acted as a catalyst, and the album began to click into place around it. I knew I had a centrepiece, I knew how it was all going to sound, he says. Working with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, musical themes began to emerge. Recording orchestral musicians in actual studios helped bring the songs out of the box even more.

A rhythmic framework started to come together too: the structures of UK bass music and rave began to seep into beats that would become tracks like Otomo (eventually co-produced by OFlynn and featuring a sample of the Bulgarian choir 100 Kaba-Gaidi), and Sapien. The old school, Detroity, Moodymann and Theo Parrish inspired Shadows was recorded with friend Jordan Rakei. Rosewood, Closer and Counterpoint each start with an ecstatic snap to them, but snake down surprisingly different paths. Somogyis harp and Atwood-Fergusons strings mingle together on the beatless Elysian. Two ballads flesh out the second half of the record: Day by Day featuring Kadhja Bonet and From You featuring Joji.