Rita
A celebratory night out personified: the party starts, worry leaves, and the morning after is hollow. The record gives each substance the shape of a woman and the same three-part arc of rumour, peak and after, and this track opens it. Nothing in the Atlas is mapped here, since the album sits outside the correspondence system by design. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Mary Jane
Cannabis as a mellow, slowing presence that eases tension and lets thoughts drift. The personification is the album's method rather than a claim about the substance, and no Atlas correspondence is attached. It is the gentlest entry in a sequence that does not stay gentle. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Sally
A hallucinogen that bends walls and gravity and leaves the question of what was real unanswered. The record keeps its distance from any esoteric reading of that: distortion here is distortion rather than vision, and no correspondence is attached. The album's method is personification, and this is where the person stops being reliable. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Vicky
An opioid painkiller that quiets the inner storm and smooths the pain into a temporary pause. No correspondence is attached. The track sits at the point in the running order where the album's women stop promising a night out and start promising relief. The shift is never announced; it simply happens. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Coco
A stimulant surge of confidence and energy that makes you ten feet tall, and the crash that arrives on the same schedule. No correspondence is attached. The album's arc of rumour, peak and morning after is compressed here into a single fall, with the confidence arriving and leaving inside one song. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Zanny
A sedative that turns down racing thought and wraps the mind in calm, leaving a rest that is not restful. No correspondence is attached. It answers the record's stimulant tracks directly: the same wish for relief, approached from the opposite end of the shelf. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Gina
A slow, tide-like sedation with blurred gaps where the night should be. No correspondence is attached. It is one of the bleakest entries on the record by simple arithmetic, since the peak is present and unremembered. The album's three-part arc loses its middle here, which is the observation the track is making. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Roxy
An opioid that washes the pain away and leaves you floating, then hollow and waiting. No correspondence is attached. Paired with the earlier Vicky, it shows the same relief asked for a second time, which is the album's quietest way of describing dependence, since neither track ever uses the word. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Tina
A stimulant as a relentless engine, driving the body into overdrive with no rest offered. No correspondence is attached. It is the record's furthest point from its celebratory opening, and the personification has stopped being flattering by the time it arrives. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Molly
Empathogenic euphoria: strangers become friends and the walls come down on a dancefloor of warmth. No correspondence is attached. The track describes the connection without describing what it costs, which on this record is itself part of the arc rather than an oversight. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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Belle
An earth-based plant medicine personified as Mother Belle, with the forest speaking through whoever takes her. This is one of only two tracks on the record that touch the Atlas. The correspondence is shamanism, the broad family of practices in which a specialist enters altered states to meet a spirit world on behalf of a community, using drumming, chant, fasting and sacred plants. The track calls her reflective rather than addictive. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
Kitty
A dissociative that separates spirit from body, leaving you floating outside yourself and watching your life from a distance. The correspondence is astral projection, the practice of inducing an out-of-body experience in which awareness seems to separate from the body and travel apart from it. This is the album's one genuine overlap with esoteric practice, arrived at chemically rather than by discipline. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
Lucy
A doorway to expanded consciousness where geometry unfolds and the universe appears inside. No correspondence is attached, though the description is the nearest this record comes to The Divine Algorithm. The album leaves that resemblance unmapped rather than claiming it. From the unreleased album Altered Mind.
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