A decade after lighting up the UK post-dubstep landscape with his own brand of sadness-tinted bright-focus electronic pop, Orlando Higginbottom returns with a new shape and a sharper edge. Dropping the Totally Enourmous Extinct Dinosaurs nom de plume, now as TEED, he opens up about rebuilding a creative life, dropping that Dadaist moniker that became a barrier, and writing Always With Me as a front-to-back album designed for deep listening. We dig into the real cost of momentum, the strange mix of pride and embarrassment that comes with releasing art, and why the only way to find magic is to run through the cringe instead of hiding from it.
Moving from Britain to LA, Orlando speaks honestly about confronting British attitudes to success, learning from American civil rights conversations, and the humility that comes from realising how much you don’t know until you leave home.
Fans of Junior Boys, Metronomy, and New Order will hear familiar emotional colours in Always With Me: bright, economical production carrying bittersweet lyrics and synth lines that linger. Orlando shares the turning points that kept him going, from burnout after Trouble and industry targets that narrowed his world to a liberating SoundCloud drop that kickstarted a new season of work. Along the way, he offers grounded advice for artists: decide whether you’re chasing quick wins or a lasting identity, share work early, set your rules, and avoid outrage-for-clicks traps because relationships outlast algorithms.
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TEED on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/teed/?hl=en
TEED on Bandcamp:
https://t-e-e-d.bandcamp.com/album/always-with-me
My book Coming To Berlin is a journey through the city’s creative underground, and is available via Velocity Press.
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