Damages
Releases October 15, 2025
Jon Hadley’s Damages is a body of work built from impact.
It maps grief, trauma, and memory through layered textures, unresolved structures, and emotional architecture.
Damages is survival made audible.
I’m not interested in the surface.
I don’t make art to be background noise or to chase trends.
I work in fragments, in layers, in structures that are meant to hold weight.
The way I process the world is not linear. My thoughts move depth-first… I don’t skim across things, I dive into them. When something enters my awareness, I go all the way down to the root of it, often before I can come back up to the surface. It means I notice the patterns underneath the moment… and I carry them forward.
On top of that, I experience synesthesia. For me, memory and emotion aren’t just ideas… they are full-body sensory maps. Colors, textures, tastes, and sounds wire themselves into what I feel. A memory of grief might taste metallic. A moment of connection might appear in orange hues that linger long after the moment is gone. It means nothing ever arrives in just one dimension… everything comes layered, everything carries weight.
That’s what Damages is built from. It isn’t an album of love songs, party tracks, or quick catharsis. It’s a record of what happens when you live with weight… when fragments of memory, grief, and survival don’t fade, but instead demand to be shaped into something that can hold them. Each track is a container for impact… something that lets me breathe through the wreckage instead of letting it scatter.
You don’t need to know me personally to understand this music. What matters is knowing that it comes from a place of structure and necessity. I don’t play in half-truths. Damages exists because I had to build something strong enough to hold what I carry.
This blog series will walk through that process. Each entry will not only open up a track, but also show the way it was built… the choices behind it… the reasons it matters.
Welcome to Damages.
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