Takeo.K - Home Is Everywhere and Nowhere at Once

Takeo.K’s anticipated album Home Is Everywhere and Nowhere at Once arrives on Theory Therapy. It’s a strikingly patient debut of intimate vocals, shimmering guitar and gauzy electronics floating hazily in the grey area between shoegaze, dub, and downtempo.

Home Is Everywhere and Nowhere at Once threads together a suite of songs that drift through questions of loss, identity, displacement, inquiring into the universal through the personal. Takeo.K’s distinct vocals are at the forefront as they pen poetic missives spoken and sung in their native Japanese and learned English. Cloaked in layers of texture and synthesis, they explore themes of placelessness, collective grief, and the complexities of returning to a home that now feels distant. The record tempers its melancholy with fragile promises of hope and renewal, balancing introspection with momentum. It never wallows, anchored in a fragmented pulse hewn from sparse drums filtered through a dubwise lens.

The assured opening ‘To Change is Scary’ sets a pensive tone for the album – a coalescence of Takeo.K’s ethereal vocals alongside brushes of guitar and ASMR-like textural accents. ‘Call me (when yr heart is empty)’ sees a wistful vocal refrain trading places with waves of moonlit modular synth, punctuated by swells of emotionally resonant saxophone from frequent collaborator Izzi Cocks. ‘Same Grey’ breaks the flow with an interlude of foggy tension, dissonant woodwind and distant drums drowned in static. It vanishes as quickly as it came into the warmth of ‘I’ll Go Anywhere’, a balm of humid pads and dub-soaked percs blanketing misty vocals.

The album takes another contemplative turn with ‘Land of My Dreams’, gazing towards the horizon through clouds of guitar, vox, and synthesis. The relief of ‘Silence’ sees the record reaching an emotional climax, as Takeo.K anchors a filtered breakbeat to bursts of ambient guitar in harmony with flourishes of Izzi Cocks’ saxophone, seemingly finding a moment of connection and comfort in vulnerability. The finale/title track ‘Home is Everywhere and Nowhere at Once’ opens with atmospheric field recordings, as a piano riff invites you to retrace the felt landscape of the record – the personal, the quietly sentimental, and the sense of returning to a familiar place that now feels different.

Two bonus dubs exclusive to the limited edition CD round out the physical release, reconstructing ‘Same Grey’ into the gentler yet moody ‘“War” is over dub’; and ‘Call me’ into the subaquatic and propulsive ‘When yr in dub’.

The album acts as a statement of intent from the nascent artist and marks a homecoming to a new sound that’s distinctly their own, discovered through a decade of experimentation and commitment to their sonic milieu. A rare release that is immediately understood but continues to reveal new layers of feeling, texture, and detail with each subsequent listen. 

Releases January 30, 2026. Buy on Bandcamp.

Written and produced by Takeo.K
Saxophone by Izzi Cocks (Track 2, 3, and 6)
Mixed and mastered by Ike Zwanikken
Artwork by Lucas Dupuy
Distribution by Rubadub
Words by Anuraag