Keaton Henson sheds his "quiet boy” image on Parader, an album steeped in the grunge textures of his youth. These twelve songs trace a turbulent dialogue with time, memory, and the strains of life as a musician, blending hushed melancholy with sudden eruptions of noise. Henson describes the record as “disjointed snapshots,” where fragments of the past resurface against the present. The louder, rougher sound is not an act of posturing but of acceptance: “Maybe I’m just admitting that this is a part of me as well.” Closing track Performer ties the themes together, confronting the vulnerability of exposing one’s scars through song. “I am the parader,” he sings - an artist who turns wounds into something both fragile and defiant.