LONDON – A new single, “Aeons,” from Japanese musician Cornelius featuring Sean Ono Lennon, signals an expansive new direction for his forthcoming album, Refractions.
Cornelius, the Japanese musician Keigo Oyamada, released “Aeons” as a new single featuring Sean Ono Lennon on May 26, 2026. This track previews his upcoming album, Refractions, set for release on August 19, 2026, via Eat Your Own Ears Recordings. The collaboration extends a relationship dating back to the late 1990s.
Ono Lennon contributes vocals and lyrics to “Aeons,” while Refractions also features collaborations with Arto Lindsay, Shintaro Sakamoto, and Bid from The Monochrome Set. Cornelius stated that rapid global change influenced the work, leading him to explore continuity and transformation structurally within a single, uninterrupted flow of time.
Charting Time's Unseen Currents
Cornelius’s “Aeons,” a collaboration with Sean Ono Lennon, explores intense global change and temporal disorientation, marking a shift towards introspection post-Mellow Waves. The track questions beginnings and ends, framing structural explorations of time and humanity’s flawed foresight through lyrical uncertainty. For a full analysis of the track “Aeons” by Cornelius, read more here. Its cosmic scope, invoking ‘aeons’ and ‘parsecs,’ addresses persistent patterns across vast time and space.
This universal anxiety about continuity is then grounded in personal experience, with lines like ‘The World’s on your shoulders’ elevating the individual to a nexus of global and cosmic consciousness. The repeated chorus emphasizes a ceaseless human quest for meaning within an ever-changing, disorienting reality, where asking ‘How long can we go on’ becomes a pattern itself.
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