Joshua Gabriel is a prolific New York based artist who creates iconoclastic, metaphysically charged images and music. His work spans a variety of media, with a focus on line drawing, genre-bending music, public murals, video projection and performance. Most recently jG manifests installations which recombine and alchemize all of the above into a nameless form which imbues physical space with the EGOMYSTiCAL, a term invented to describe the idea that our egoic journey is guided and permeated by the mystical and spiritual planes of existence toward self-knowledge, and ultimately transcendence into the greater consciousness. Joshua Gabriel has exhibited and performed throughout the United States, self-released a catalog of original music and DJ mixtapes, and has created large scale murals throughout New York City.

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GRUNGETRAP - the new album from Brooklyn, New York’s joshua G - is a sharp and succinct album of undeniable bangers. The sound, as promised, alchemizes grunge’s distorted guitars and dark melodies with trap influenced, heavy-on-the-808 beats. Nirvana’s “Something in the Way” and Stone Temple Pilots’ “Creep” get a 2026 infused makeover, careening between head nodding, acoustic guitar laden-grooves and floor shaking mayhem. Original song “Doomscroller” sounds like a nineties, indie chart topper, while lyrically serving up an anthem of social commentary on our phone obsessed culture. While not the first beat-making producer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist of our tech-assisted age, it’s joshua G’s aesthetic that is so different - layering past and current genres with a sound that is both retro and futuristic. Materializing from this Pro Tools opus, G emotively sings, wails, and spits his signature vocals right in the pocket, with a raw, unvarnished finish influenced by heroes like Iggy, PJ Harvey, Bauhaus, Patti Smith, Mobb Deep, Gil-Scott Heron, Bowie and more. “Guilty,” the only strictly acoustic offering on the album, is a live take recorded straight into the Voice Memo app; with G expressing the guilt he feels as bombs rain down on innocent civilians across the globe. GRUNGETRAP sounds like this exact moment, simultaneously looking back and forward, while defiantly choosing humanity, fun, guitars, and beats in the face of geopolitical, AI induced armageddon.

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