Fakemink Says Terrified Took Two Years to Build
fakemink said Terrified has been two years in the making, with little of it recorded during a mini tour that ran from August until he got home on 25th of November. For a project that has already been teased in Instagram captions, the timeline now reads less like hype and more like a long, controlled build.
“The concept of it has been two years in the making,” he said, adding that from August he was on the road in Toronto, New York and LA. “All that time, I was in LA and New York and I wasn’t recording much music, and none of it was for Terrified.”
LA, New York and England
He said he had to come back to England to get outside “of that LA environment,” which gives the album rollout a sharper edge than a standard teaser cycle. Terrified is his first full-length project since London’s Saviour dropped in 2023, and the gap helps explain why the release has been drawing attention since cryptic hints started appearing toward the end of last year.
That pause also suggests a deliberate editing process, not a loose collection of tracks assembled around the tour circuit. Fakemink described the record as “lo-fi hip-hop if it was played on the radio,” a line that points to polish rather than rough sketch work.
GhostInnaFurCoat and drill
He said the album follows an eerie horror narrative set in a “cold mansion in LA,” and that it includes a short story written by GhostInnaFurCoat. That kind of cross-format detail gives Terrified a more assembled shape than a typical album campaign, with story and sound built as one package.
Fakemink also said one track carries “a secret feature that I can’t share yet.” He paired that tease with a broader shift in listening habits: “Yeah, when I was doing London’s Saviour, I used to listen to a lot of grime, like a lot of Skepta and JME. But, now, it’s just been drill. That 2018-2020 era drill is nostalgic to me – it reminds me of when I was in secondary school. I love UK drill.”
March cover, October hints
March brought his first-ever cover story, after the album had already been seeded in captions toward the end of last year. That sequence matters because it shows the campaign moving from coded social posts to a more direct public frame, with the concept and sound now laid out in his own words.
The remaining pressure point is the music itself: one unreleased feature is still being held back, and the album’s final shape now depends on how much of that horror narrative survives the transition from concept to release. After two years of build-up, the next real test is whether the record lands with the same control he described, not whether the teasing kept people curious.
