Ajskells Keeps Moving Forward on ‘BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME’

Over the last few years, Ajskells has quietly built up a catalog that keeps getting deeper, dropping projects, experimenting, and continuing to find new ways to push his sound forward. His latest album, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME, feels like another step in that process.

The biggest thing about BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME might be what it says about where Ajskells is at right now. There’s a difference between constantly releasing music and actually building a catalog. Ajskells is starting to have enough material behind him where every new project doesn’t exist on its own anymore. It becomes part of a bigger story.

Even the title BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME feels fitting. It sounds like something you tell somebody after they lose, but Ajskells doesn’t sound interested in treating anything like the end of the road. If something doesn’t work, there’s another record. Another project. Another opportunity to figure it out. And judging by how frequently his catalog has grown over the past few years, “next time” probably isn’t very far away.

BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME is out now on all streaming platforms.