There’s a certain kind of clarity that only arrives when the world feels like it’s actively falling apart. For Fuzion, the Montreal-based electronic-punk artist, that clarity came during an ordinary moment that collided with an extraordinary one. “The title came to me one day when I was watching the news,” she says of The World Is Ending And I Lost My Lighter, her sophomore album, released last Friday. “Terrible things were being reported as I was desperately looking for a lighter to light a joint. The thought paralleled the theme of the album thus far, and I continued writing from there.”
It’s the kind of origin story that feels both absurdly mundane and deeply resonant, which is, perhaps, exactly the point. The album, nine tracks accompanied by four music videos, reflects what Fuzion describes as the shared experience of holding personal chaos alongside a world that seems increasingly unsteady. “The album reflects the experiences many have balancing the weight of personal issues and those abroad, potentially incoming,” she explains. That balance, between the intimate and the global, is something Fuzion has been refining since her debut.
Her first album, 89 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, released in April 2025 and still available on CD in stores across Canada, announced her as an artist willing to reckon with civilizational dread in real time. The record drew its central image from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock, that unnerving symbolic countdown to global catastrophe. “I was writing the album when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made their announcement,” she recalls. “There was an atmosphere of quiet understanding among everyone the days after; it was tangible. This resonated alongside the music I had been writing; it felt important to not fight that.”
That instinct to follow a feeling rather than intellectualize it runs throughout Fuzion’s creative process. Asked how a track typically begins, she describes a shift that’s happened over time. “When I first started writing music, typically it was a sound or beat that would come to mind. Lately, it is sudden, unshakeable thoughts and feelings that inspire me to explore the appropriate sounds to accompany them. If it rocks, I run with it.” It’s a deceptively simple philosophy for music that carries considerable emotional and political weight.
On The World Is Ending And I Lost My Lighter, Fuzion builds her signature sound with a vocoder, electric guitar, and synthesizer, with her home studio functioning as an instrument in its own right. That self-sufficiency is something she’s deliberate about. “I get to say and do whatever I want, whenever I want,” she says of working independently. “It is an opportunity to learn to record, mix, and master so I can manipulate the music on my own. Having total autonomy over your art is powerful and genuine.”
That autonomy extends to the sonic texture of the new record, which Fuzion says was constructed with less gear than previous releases, a constraint that ended up being generative rather than limiting. “The World Is Ending And I Lost My Lighter was created with minimal equipment compared to other releases,” she notes. “This pushed me to explore different angles of production. Still, my discography resonates with the same authenticity.” The room, the setup, the circumstances: none of it changes what’s at the core.
And what’s at the core, consistently, is a commitment to making people feel less alone in their confusion and grief. It’s a principle that sits at the foundation of the Fuzion project as a whole. “I feel comfortable expressing raw thoughts of the world’s ugliness in every step of the creative process,” she says. “My hope is that someone may hear Demagogue after seeing a horrific statement from Donald Trump and maybe have a laugh. I want people to know they aren’t alone.”
That desire for connection comes through most sharply when Fuzion describes the echo chamber her music is responding to, not as an abstract concept, but as a lived, daily reality. “We have an environment that has normalized working multiple jobs and still cutting meals to afford rent,” she says. “Young people going to university, only to move back home with Indeed burned into their laptop screen. Seniors and veterans who cannot access healthcare or housing. And we all have the same ‘BREAKING NEWS’ blaring through our TVs every hour. Everybody is caught in this echo chamber.”
It’s blunt, unvarnished language, and that’s entirely intentional. Fuzion isn’t reaching for distance from these feelings; she’s writing from inside them. “From the depths within,” she says simply, when asked whether her music comes from a place of processing or perspective. “This is where I am most inspired to create.”
There’s something quietly defiant about that approach. In a music landscape that often rewards polish over rawness, and detachment over investment, Fuzion insists on making work that sits directly in the discomfort. The World Is Ending And I Lost My Lighter is the sound of someone watching the news and writing a record anyway, which, in 2026, might be the most honest thing anyone can do.
The World Is Ending And I Lost My Lighter is out now.
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