For over a decade Lotic has garnered acclaim for an expansive production style; unpredictably nestling searing knife’s-edge sound design next to pop music hooks, hypnotic vocal reverie and the lineage of Black club cultures. A series of well-received mixtapes, including Fallout (2013), Damsel in Distress (2014), Agitations (2015) and Heterocetera (2015) attracted the attention of avant-garde iconoclast Björk, who stated, »Lotic is one of the fiercest performer DJs I have ever heard.« Lotic’s debut album Power, released in 2018, transformed feelings of fear and vulnerability into a consolidation of personal agency and strength. Power was praised for its polished production style and its narrative reflections on race, sexuality, and gender. Lotic’s latest release, the bewitchingly intimate 2021 album Water, for Houndstooth, is a stunning revelation; a tender meditation on love’s losses and lifeforce, timelines, bloodlines and resilience. Arriving at the end of a period Morgan recalls as, »having to be adaptable, while being dragged through the trenches,« Water adds the haunting quality of siren song to a career already marked by its engaging emotionality.