Future Infinite - Future Infinite (Album) + 10 Questions
A timeless journey began on 24 October 2025 with the release of Future Infinite, the self titled album from boundary pushing duo Imperial and Stewart Garry, landing via Illect Recordings. Built primarily as an instrumental record, the album subtly weaves in vocal moments, creating a rich, mosaic like soundscape where rhythm, melody and atmosphere move as one.
This is music that isn’t in a rush. It stretches time, blurs genre lines and gently nudges the listener out of their comfort zone. Jazz flecked guitar lines shimmer over hip hop grooves, ambient passages open up space to breathe, and everything feels in constant motion, alive, evolving, forward thinking.
Guest contributions add further colour. On Let Go, Sareem Poems delivers a powerful reminder to shed dead weight and embrace possibility, riding Imperial’s layered production and Stewart Garry’s effortlessly slick guitar work. Elsewhere, voices like Ozay Moore, Nomis, DIE REK and Kay Sade drift through kaleidoscopic beats with purpose and positivity.
When words step aside, the instrumentals speak just as clearly. Tracks such as Bloom, Vapor Trails and Falling Embers feel intimate and cinematic, like late night walks under city lights or conversations where time quietly disappears. Future Infinite isn’t about arriving somewhere specific; it’s about the joy of exploration, letting the music lead, and discovering what unfolds when boundaries are left behind.
Future Infinite sat down with Wordplay Magazine to answer our infamous 10 Questions:
1. So tell me, how did it all begin? What sparked your love for music?
Imperial: For me my love of music came naturally inbuilt - I connected emotionally listening to music at home and then began playing keyboards and was introduced to music production via Cubase (installed from a floppy disc!). From that point I was hooked on writing my own music and playing with sound.
Stew: As far back as I remember I have always loved listening and playing music. I started playing different instruments from a young age, playing in folk bands and steel pan bands, playing drums in bands until finding the guitar and seeing how versatile an instrument it is. It’s now been just over 20 years of playing guitar from jazz to post-hardcore rock, hip hop, lo-fi, modern fingerstyle guitar.
2. Who are some artists that influence you and that you want to work with in the future?
Imperial: Big influences along the way have been the likes of ATCQ, Dilated Peoples, Gang Starr, Jurassic 5, De La Soul, I was initially drawn towards boom bap with a DJ/Producer central to the group. My love of hip hop comes from that starting point. Wider than that, producers and artists like Bonobo, DJ Shadow, RJD2, The Avalanches and Cinematic Orchestra have had a big impact on me. I'd love to have Chali 2na (J5) glide over one of my beats with his baritone bars!
Stew: I have a wide variety of influences on my playing and try to listen to as many different styles of music to see what techniques and sounds could be incorporated into the music we create. But main guitar influences would be Tommy Emmanuel (first guitarist that made me want to play guitar), Tom Morello (Rage against the machine), John Mayer, Cory Wong, Mark Knophler, Tom Misch, and Anthony Wilson (Diana Krall guitarist).
3. What projects do you have coming up and can you give us any info on them?
We’re working on some artist-led EPs; we’re building with some incredible instrumentalists, vocalists and rappers both in the UK and US. We’re excited by the future and all the creative twists and turns that collaboration brings.
4. How would you describe your sound?
Our sound really is a mash of our two influences but in a way that creates something new beyond what we expected, rather than something that is 50% of each of us. We’ve found the beauty of collaboration brings something new, fresh and better than we’d anticipated. One week we’re working on some jazzy boom bap, then we’ll hit some ambient eastern scale guitar melodies and then some analog synth driven lo-fi. We don’t want to be pinned to anything other than ‘our sound’, which really is whatever we’re vibing with at the time.
5. What's your proudest moment to date so far as an artist?
Our proudest moment for sure has been having our track ‘Short Change’ with Ozay Moore played on Radio 1. For our debut album as a duo this was major!
6. Do you have any advice for our readers who may be trying to play the mad game of music?
Imperial: It’s hard to know what the future looks like with AI here to stay, but I think the age old advice of ‘hone your craft’ still will ring true. Put in the reps and lean into the love of making music as a goal in and of itself. The world needs artists and musicians even if we’re not all hitting big numbers. I still believe that good music will find an audience, it will find its home - we’ve just got to make the music and put it out there.
Stew: Just enjoy playing music and write the music you want to listen to.
7. Are there any artists on your radar right now that we should check out?
Imperial: threetwenty are getting a lot of love over here. Their sound is more 90s than I remember the 90s and I’m here for all of it. So chill, fluid and effortless. Also really digging Barney Artist’s new project They Change When I Did.
Stew: Matt Wilde’s new album ‘Find a Way’ is a great listen.
8. What albums are on heavy rotation on your Spotify playlist currently?
Imperial: I’m loving anything edbl puts out and I’m really enjoying digging back in the crates and listening to Black Star, Roots Manuva and Ty (RIP) right now.
Stew: Anything Toshiki Soejima, Tom Misch or Roy Hargrove have on Spotify.
9. What do you like to do when you're not making music?
Imperial: Watching Arsenal (can we do it?!), hanging out with my family, reading nerdy magazines about studio gear I can’t afford.
Stew: Playing sport of some kind.
10. Name Three things you can't live without when in the studio?
Stew: Fender Strat, Custom Avalon Acoustic Guitar and coffee.
Imperial: Firstly, it’s gotta be clean, I can’t work in clutter. I can’t live without Logic Pro X and all my VSTs, I use this DAW everyday and have a workflow that’s baked into my muscle memory now. Like Stew, gotta have good coffee.
