hARVEY cAUSON

Artist / Composer / Producer / Remixer

https://www.harveycauson.co.uk

Harvey Causon’s restless curiosity has long been the force behind his deft and infectious sound. Since he was a child, music has been a way for him to explore and untangle the world around him, a raw form of communication to distil complex theories into mesmerising tracks.

Harvey’s albums, Square Breath, released November 2024, and Collective Body (Original Virtual Reality Experience Score) released in October 2025 are inspired as much by dance as they are music. While they sit in two different worlds sonically, both are graceful, atmospheric albums, with shifting ambient textures underscored by skittering grooves. As a listener, the walls of Causon’s mind close in around you, as his anxieties on everything from the worsening climate crisis to our increasing tech-dependency to a slowly-ending long term-relationship are laid bare.

Breaking through Bristol's ever-experimental music scene with his first releases in 2017, Causon has built a reputation as an artist with a truly singular voice and songwriting ability. The singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist's slew of EPs – including ‘Vertebrae’ and ‘Fourth Wall’ - have been championed by BBC Radio 1, 6 Music, NME, DIY, Clash, Metal and Notion. They build electronic landscapes with an almost-scientific lyric-craft that vibrate with a deep emotional resonance.

Harvey headlined The ICA London in Feb 2025 and will play an intimate set at The Old Church in Stoke Newington in Jan 2026. Harvey is a member of Sampha’s legendary band on tour in UK, Europe, Asia and US and supported on selected dates. Having opened for the likes of Hot Chip, Maribou State and Loyle Carner, Harvey is a memorable performer with a beautifully tender live vocal.

Square Breath has gained support from the likes of WONDERLAND, METAL and DANCEWAX and extensive BBC Radio plays from the likes of Sian Eleri, Alyx Smallcome and James Threlfall.

Releases

Remixes

DISCOGRAPHY

RELEASES

Single ‘Post Society II ‘

Released 20th November 2025

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COLLECTIVE bODY (original virtual reality experience score)

Released 27th October 2025

Harvey was commissioned by The Lincoln Centre and dancer, choreographer and director Sarah Silverblatt-Buser to compose the music to accompany her debut Virtual Reality Experience: Collective Body. Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement. Participants wear headsets and through their own movement are guided to rediscover their first ways of engaging with the world, symbolising formative life events that culminate in a shared exploration of our embodied selves. ‘Designed for 4 participants up to 12, Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement. Set in the middle of a New Mexican storm, participants are guided to rediscover their first ways of engaging with the world, symbolizing formative life events that culminate in a shared exploration of our embodied selves.’

Collective Body (Original Virtual Reality Experience Score) is an adaptation of these composition pieces into 7 songs. Harvey says "it was a real journey composing for something so ambitious with Sarah. Avatars have personalised musical themes for up to 16 users at once and are self-generated through an algorithmic system that analyses participants movement in the first two scenes. A lot of the interactive music is generative and I sampled a few of my favourite synths to be played through movement. Was a huge learning curve working with VR technician, Côme, thinking about sound generation in a completely different way."

Debut album Square Breath

Released 15th November 2024

A grippingly unique voice connecting universal ideologies and ambitions, Harvey Causon’s progressive and politically-charged music marks him as an immediate standout.

Expressing his own experiences of hope and frustration, influences past and present, reflections on the future, and the cultural knowledge gained from his environment, Square Breath was formed to tell a larger story; his raw, intricate lyricism and dystopian soundwaves dominate the album’s arc, detailing crucial subject matter that blossoms into an enigmatic display of authority and vulnerability. From love and heartbreak to the worsening climate crisis, competition through capitalism and the spiral of artificial intelligence, Causon’s highly fertile and visionary mind stands as a true testament to his powers of documentation.

2024

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Single ‘Impasse’

Speaking on “Impasse”, Causon mentions: “This track was written with artist SALPA (Luke Bower) in one take in a hotel room 5 years ago about an ‘impasse’ of a long-distance relationship. A dreamlike memory mourning the fleeting moments we have with each other. Choreographer Magnus Westwell directed the music video and also plays strings on the track alongside Harvey Grant on the saxophone both toying with space and chaos.”

2024

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Single ‘Nostalgia’

Opening with beautifully crafted violins and a striking AI sample formed from vintage 70s records, the hazy, nocturnal production on “Nostalgia” quickly blossoms into an electric wall of sound; rolling drum breaks and heavy-weight basslines creating a canvas for Harvey Causon’s ethereal exploration of reality and the dystopia that can rework and affect our creative journeys. Shaping raw, intricate lyrics alongside GRAMMY-winners P*nut (Amy Winehouse, Faithless) and Erik Alcock (Nas, Eminem, Celine Dion), the young talent chants: “Nostalgia got me sinking // Getting harder to distinguish” - a complex limbo that becomes illuminated through the visual’s powerful, warped darkness.

Speaking on “Nostalgia”, Harvey Causon states: “When writing the initial lyrics, I was unaware that the sample was AI-generated. The lyrics that came to me were based on ideas of recalling memories and not being able to distinguish whether they are from reality or formed from photographs we’ve seen. With modern forms of hyperrealism in AI photo and music generation I found myself thinking about how much memory is based around reality and what this means for nostalgia in the future. ‘Nostalgia’ also reflects on the regurgitative nature of AI and the loss of interest in the nuances of human creativity.”

He adds: “The music video created with Node TV also uses generative imagery and reflects on the symptomatic fear that has been attached to the subject of technological singularity - a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilisation. Director Katie Scott aimed to convey the ‘nuance’ of the human experience and how that translates into the digital realm.”

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SINGLE ‘Fault Lines’

‘Fault Lines’ was written in Deptford last summer with Rosie Lowe and Harvey Grant (Dweller).

‘It’s about the stage before you allow yourself to fall in love with someone. It’s about the feeling of exploring a new city on a hot summer night with someone that you are also navigating. The air tastes different and everything smells sweeter, everything feels possible. The backstreets, the abstract bokeh of lights akin to the initial dots of a blooming relationship. The mundane seems more enchanting than usual. Ultimately it’s about letting go and the feeling of wanting someone. The full live brass section and strings underneath saxophones, synths and samples of piano pedals moving give it a broodiness and a lightness at the same time.’

2024

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SINGLE ‘Psycho’

The punching, bass-driven ‘Psycho’ is Harvey’s first new single since his 2022 EP. a comment on how political and institutional systems within society uphold and encourage competition. How ego driven leaders distort reality and pit people against each other for financial gain, killing true art.

The video Harvey created in collaboration with director and choreographer Folu Odimayo is based around a feeling of being forced to act like dogs in the UK’s creative industries, jumping through hoops and selling souls just to stay afloat. Folu articulates this animalistic and doglike physicality with the movement. Inspired by Francis Bacon paintings; surreal dream-like vignettes, deranged humour and visceral rave-like dancing communicate resistance and feelings of exorcism.

2024

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