Feb. 24, 2026 // PR // GULFF v. Spotify
Feb. 20, 2026 // PRESS RELEASE // GULFF “error”
February 20, 2026 — GULFF is Tod Lippy and Owain Kelly. Lippy is in Brooklyn. Kelly is in Manchester, UK. They have never been in the same room and they say they never will be. “error” — the first single from GULFF’s eponymous forthcoming album that explores and samples the dystopian soundscape of late capitalism in a dream-state, world-building journey between sonic extremes — is out February 20.
Coordinated entirely remotely — almost exclusively over WhatsApp — and built from sampled hold music, robocalls, and automated messages, "error" opens with a field recording captured in Manchester of a street preacher proclaiming his faith over the din of passing traffic. It ends on a customer-service hold line. At first, the lyrics seem to explore the banal, 404 language of forgotten passwords and systems errors ("this field is required," "this key has expired"), gradually decrypting to share deeper, darker realizations of systemic error.
The duo’s name comes from the brief period in early 2025 when the Gulf of Mexico was officially renamed the Gulf of America. Lippy and Kelly, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, were struck by the absurdity of the gesture, and horrified by the speed at which tech giants coalesced to enforce a new reality. Gulff — and the duo’s parallel, indignant quests for human connection —was born of that moment.
A music video for "error", made by Kelly from stock footage of the first known internet advertisement — assembled, distorted and re-recorded through progressive eras of visual playback technology — accompanies the single release. The track is streaming on all platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, Bandcamp and gulffonline.com. It foreshadows the release of a full 39-minute album — which early listeners say balances the extremes, “pristine” and “damaged,” in a way that is “authentic and cathartic,” full of “heart and power” — later this year.
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