Ben Heyworth returns with “Image of Roads (Montana Mix)”, a track that feels like watching a blueprint suddenly sprout wings and take flight. Collaborating with the members of Minorplanet, Heyworth a man whose history suggests he’s been sketching the Manchester indie skyline for years revisits an older acoustic skeleton and wraps it in something far more sinewy. It is “urban folk” that has decided to quit its day job and drive straight toward a neon horizon.
There is a specific kind of momentum here. It isn’t merely speed; it’s a deliberate, propulsive shove against the gravity of the past. The rhythm feels like the heartbeat of a machine that refuses to stall, while those shimmering melodic layers act like sunlight hitting a windshield at high speed. You can feel the transformation from something intimate into a muscular, psychedelic expansion. It’s a bit like seeing a house you once lived in suddenly being remodeled into a spaceship.
The vocals carry an urgency that suggests the destination is secondary to the act of moving. It’s a beautiful display of controlled chaos, a mixture of 90s British indie grit and wide-open Americana. The track thrives in that expansive space between where we were and who we’re becoming, refusing to look in the rearview mirror for long. It leaves you with the dizzying sense that the horizon isn’t a boundary, but a door.
What happens when we finally outrun our own shadows?
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