BEATRIFUL · SizzleC · album under developmentdouble album · draft for review

SizzleC · 20 tracks · two discs · the quarantine tapes

ALL I WANTED WAS TO EAT MY SUSHIThe Complete Quarantine Tapes 2019–2025

Two voices, one relationship, six years, seven cities. Every track is one incident, reported deadpan — a border, a needle, a corn cob, a seagull, a puppy in two pink splints, a divorce signed on a screen in The Hague — and the genre changes with the room it happened in. Nobody in these songs is a hero. The title is the smallest wish on the record, which is why it's the title.

Voices
Her — most of the album, spoken and sung. Him — the detached baritone she keeps texting. The dog, from disc two.
Run time
~73 min on the take-2 drafts · disc one 35:37 · disc two 37:59
Lane
60–145 BPM, 20 genres, mostly minor keys — darkwave to acid house to a music-box lullaby
Status
Draft takes against all 20 tracks (v6, two per track, 14 Sep 2026) — made to react to, not masters and not a release. No cover yet. 20 of 20 music videos are cut, the rest are rendering. Nothing here is published.
Disc one · Out there
01

Bury the Skank (Taipei 4 AM)

Taipei · room 325 · 4 AM

The opener. A forgotten prescription at the chemist, the key hidden in plastic wrap, chicken rice cooling on the marble slab. She texts from a cab in the midnight rain — exploring, nothing personal — and the only deal on the table is don't get attached.

The rule the next nineteen tracks break.

draft take 2 · 3:30 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:16

Bury the Skank (Taipei 4 AM) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 30 Sep 2026

118 BPMC minor · 3:30cinematic darkwave
02

Tunnel to Windsor (400 Renaissance Dr)

Detroit–Windsor · 400 Renaissance Drive · winter

Customs reads every text on her phone while he sits across the river at the casino losing two thousand. Nine days on a temporary slip, luggage piling up in freezing sleet at the valet, a white SUV, a code word, Nero's steakhouse at 10:45 — and a phone that will not pick up.

The first emergency. The first unanswered call.

draft take 2 · 3:55 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:55

Tunnel to Windsor (400 Renaissance Dr) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 10 Oct 2026

128 BPMD minor · 3:55industrial ebm
03

Truvada Shield (PrEP Protocol)

A rental room · the first weeks of the virus

He reads the Taipei lab papers and stockpiles blue pills in the linen press beside the green tea and the sterile gauze, convinced tenofovir will keep the fever out. She orders delivery from down the block and calls it what it is: not prevention — escape.

Two kinds of fear locked in one room.

draft take 2 · 3:20 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:13

Truvada Shield (PrEP Protocol) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 6 Oct 2026

122 BPMG minor · 3:20coldwave
04

Savannah Cat / Syringe Blues

Seattle · 42nd floor · over Puget Sound

A three-thousand-dollar empty one-bed above the Needle, a spotted Savannah kitten asleep in the bathroom sink, ninety-six protein shakes from the Whole Foods downstairs, syringes in the bedside drawer, protests on Capitol Hill. She is left alone twelve days with the concierge checking the water dish.

"I missed the Docklands" — the first mention of where this record ends up.

draft take 2 · 3:47 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:43

Savannah Cat / Syringe Blues — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 1 Oct 2026

84 BPMG minor · 3:47downtempo trip-hop
05

Corn Cob Emergency

A summer night · the parquet floor

Three whole cobs with butter at half past eight; by midnight a stabbing in the side and Google saying rupture. A private doctor, a cold ultrasound probe, the question "did you swallow foreign objects?" — and the confession. She laughs from the mattress eating salty crisps.

The record's comic register: near-death as slapstick.

draft take 2 · 2:40 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 2:51

Corn Cob Emergency — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 6 Oct 2026

145 BPMF minor · 2:40glitch-punk
06

Simulation Theory (Friedenstrasse 16)

Berlin · Friedenstraße 16 · first lockdown

Dr. Oetker pizza on the middle rack at two hundred degrees, a white Fiat circling the park, a runner in a dark green coat by the pharmacy, Edeka for tea, everything shut on a Sunday. If we stay inside the room we will never age.

The thesis of the whole quarantine: nothing hurts in here.

draft take 2 · 4:21 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 4:12

Simulation Theory (Friedenstrasse 16) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 7 Oct 2026

105 BPMF♯ minor · 4:21hypnagogic synth-pop
07

Brothel on King Street

Melbourne · King Street · licence no. 462

Her pitch, in her voice: a licensed parlour on King Street, two hundred thousand to take over the lease, you do the accounting and I manage the girls, forty grand a week, a French champagne bar up front, private suites in the back. "You wouldn't even have to come inside. Just count the envelopes. Think about it, Chris."

The first song where money is the real subject.

draft take 2 · 4:06 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 4:11

Brothel on King Street — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 7 Oct 2026

98 BPME minor · 4:06seductive sleaze rock
08

Zone 2D (Runway Escape)

Terminal 3 → San Francisco → Temecula

Papers, an Austrian stamp, the proclamation and the legal file, fourteen days to beat a travel ban. A ghost-town SFO, a cosmopolitan spilled across a coat, a six-grand upgrade to business, a black Uber with the plate matching the phone, heading south along the coast.

Getting out is not the same as getting away.

draft take 2 · 3:28 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:33

Zone 2D (Runway Escape) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 8 Oct 2026

132 BPMA minor · 3:28high-energy synth-rock
09

27-Gauge Thighs (Air Piano)

A tower · twenty stories up · harbour lights

Instructions, spoken softly: twenty-seven gauge on the side of the thigh, not the green ones, forty-five degrees, pull back the plunger, check for blood, push it slow. Afterwards, fingers playing air piano on the linen sheet to a silent beat.

The tenderest song on the record is about a needle.

draft take 2 · 3:16 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:32

27-Gauge Thighs (Air Piano) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 8 Oct 2026

75 BPMB♭ minor · 3:16dark ambient r&b
10

All I Wanted Was to Eat My Sushi

Melbourne · Eastern Freeway · curfew at eight

A hundred and forty in the lane, blue lights in the rear-view, a refrigerated truck rolling past, caviar and spicy tuna scattered across the road, the roadside chemical test — set against the freeway crash that was on the six o'clock news that season. The title track, and the smallest wish on the album: all I wanted was to go home and eat my sushi.

You wrecked my car.

draft take 2 · 3:10 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:12

All I Wanted Was to Eat My Sushi — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · Wan 2.2 cut v3, 37 shots · 2026-09-19

95 BPME minor · 3:10cyberpunk glitch-hop
Disc two · Locked in
11

Quarantine Suite (Flushing Salmon Down the Drain)

Melbourne · hotel quarantine · day seven of fourteen

Three thousand dollars for a sealed room. A paper bag of cold food outside the door every morning at eight, microwave eggs straight into the bin, the salmon flushed, a nurse with a clipboard swabbing the throat, a plush bear in the corner chair — and the seagull on the ledge who is the only one who knows she is in there.

Day thirteen. Almost out. Don't touch the chicken.

draft take 2 · 3:47 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:49

Quarantine Suite (Flushing Salmon Down the Drain) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 9 Oct 2026

72 BPMB minor · 3:47ambient darkwave
12

Tina’s Bathtub Leap (Black Pom Splints)

The puppy · a marble Roman bath · 3 AM

A little black cloud of fluff named Tina, renamed Sushi. Scared of the drain, one leap through the steam, both front legs snapped on the tile. Eight thousand dollars on the Mastercard, an orthopaedic surgeon in scrubs, two pink fiberglass splints, a velvet sling, and a fight over whose fault the floor was.

The dog becomes the album's third voice.

draft take 2 · 3:36 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:36

Tina’s Bathtub Leap (Black Pom Splints) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 9 Oct 2026

115 BPMD major · 3:36tragicomic baroque pop
13

The Five-Kilometer Bubble

Melbourne · the 5 km rule · 8 PM siren

A red circle drawn on Google Maps, witches hats across the Nepean Highway, a forged letter on letterhead, the ring of steel, a helicopter spotlight on the roof, an empty tram on an empty street. "Car two-one, vehicle sighted on Kings Way." The basement at 7:58.

The city as a game board.

draft take 2 · 3:29 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:22

The Five-Kilometer Bubble — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 9 Oct 2026

130 BPMD minor · 3:29post-punk
14

Seagull Swallows the Rat

Victoria Harbour · the timber pier · noon

A silver gull on a mooring post, a limping wharf rat with nowhere to run, one snap of a yellow beak, head first, no chewing, no sound, the tail still twitching on the way down. "That's you and me in this lockdown game — who's the bird and who's the dying prey?"

The omen, said out loud.

draft take 2 · 3:42 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:32

Seagull Swallows the Rat — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 9 Oct 2026

136 BPMG minor · 3:42hard industrial techno
15

915 Collins Street (The Ghost Penthouse)

Docklands · 915 Collins Street · level 22

Eleven thousand up front and three months in advance because they don't believe. A mattress on the floor of an empty tower, flat-pack boxes against the wall, Airtasker workers who never come, Vivi cleaning every Monday noon, a broken Halloween bottle. She turns twenty-two in an empty room, ordering the sushi in the afternoon.

Don't tell me how to spend what I earned myself.

draft take 2 · 3:42 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 4:02

915 Collins Street (The Ghost Penthouse) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 9 Oct 2026

110 BPMC♯ minor · 3:42neo-noir electropop
16

Possum Trap (The Midnight Scan)

Berwick · the back sliding door · four days

The door slips open in the wind and Sushi bolts across the lawn into the storm scrub. A metal possum trap hired from the council, a can of tuna by the fence, torchlight on the drainage grate, a name called into the bushland hush. At dawn, a shadow in the cage with green eyes wide, and a microchip number that matches the certificate.

Crying against the wheel in the clinic car park — relief the only feeling left.

draft take 2 · 3:52 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:49

Possum Trap (The Midnight Scan) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 1 Oct 2026

80 BPMA minor · 3:52atmospheric trip-hop
17

The Stolen MacBooks of Docklands

Docklands · the mailbox bay · thirty minutes

A courier leaves a space-grey 16-inch MacBook Pro by the mailboxes; a stranger's scribble on the pad; gone before the hour. Find My bouncing between towers, iCloud locked from Richmond, photos syncing to Singapore, phishing links on the burner, and a recovery key written on a napkin in Berlin. The napkin is gone.

You can't bypass the cloud.

draft take 2 · 3:23 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 2:59

The Stolen MacBooks of Docklands — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 10 Oct 2026

126 BPMF minor · 3:23acid house
18

The Hague Protocol (No Smiling on Camera)

Den Haag · Nieuwe Uitleg 21 · on a screen

"No smiling on camera. This is a formal court procedure." Six copies of a settlement spread on the table, initials on every page, no claims on the property, no claims on the pride, billed at thirty minutes. Crossed the border as a husband, leaving as a friend; she in her nightie at eleven at night, biting her lip so the smirk won't show. Signed via DocuSign.

The end, done faster than an argument.

draft take 2 · 4:10 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:57

The Hague Protocol (No Smiling on Camera) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 10 Oct 2026

124 BPMA minor · 4:10minimal techno
19

Mochi & The Trump Bear

The two witnesses · a hotel floor

A plush Mochi and a gas-station novelty bear with a red tie and golden plastic hair, carried through customs in a leather carry-on, pulled back out of a lobby rubbish bin, sitting quietly while all the angry words were said. When she moved out of Collins she left the furniture, the dishes, the keys on the marble bench. Mochi is still in the bag.

Toys never hurt you. Toys never break.

draft take 2 · 3:42 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 3:42

Mochi & The Trump Bear — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 10 Oct 2026

60 BPMC major · 3:42lofi glitch lullaby
20

Dream Realm (Dead Numbers)

2025 · six dead numbers

Silly words sent to disconnected lines just to see if anything goes through; a text from a new account asking if the city is safe to see; a dream about an old photograph. She is twenty-seven now, looking at the bay — the puppy they dreamed about by the door, the bear he tried to throw away on the bookshelf, a walk past Collins Street. The record closes on a borrowed verse of Enjoy the Silence.

We survived the fire, we survived the cold. The long chaotic race is finally won.

draft take 2 · 4:34 · v6 draft, not a master

also: draft take 1 · 5:03

Dream Realm (Dead Numbers) — music video▶ Watch the video

music video · full cut · 10 Oct 2026

68 BPME♭ major · 4:34ethereal cinematic ballad

Now: the pictures

Twenty music videos, one per track, composed in the studio against the take-2 drafts so every cut lands on its lyric. 20 are cut; each appears on its track above as it lands.

Next: the sleeve

A cover that keeps the receipts — a takeaway sushi tray on a marble bench, the two pink splints, a Docklands window at curfew. Chris picks the image.

Next: the masters

Chosen takes extended to full length where a song wants it, cleaned of quoted lines, mastered as one album. Then the release page replaces this one.