Fakemink says his new album Terrified is finally ready after two years in the making, and he is still holding back one detail: a guest appearance he will not name. The project is his first full-length release since London’s Saviour dropped in 2023, and he says it has been building momentum since cryptic hints began showing up in his Instagram captions toward the end of last year.

“This one has a secret feature that I can’t share yet,” fakemink said, adding that Terrified is meant to feel like “lo-fi hip-hop if it was played on the radio.” He also hinted at an eerie horror story running through the record, set in a “cold mansion in LA,” and said the album includes a short story written by his close friend and fellow artist GhostInnaFurCoat. The album was still unreleased at the time of the interview, but he said it had already become highly anticipated.

The release matters now because fakemink has been speaking about Terrified across a stretch of interviews and appearances, including a January conversation in which he played early tracks from the project and a March cover story that framed the album as his next major step. The teasing began to gather pace near the end of last year, when his captions started dropping clues without a title or date attached. That slow reveal has helped turn the record into a long-running conversation among listeners waiting for what comes next.

Fakemink said the sound of the album reflects where his ears have been lately. “Yeah, when I was doing London’s Saviour, I used to listen to a lot of grime, like a lot of Skepta and JME. But, now, it’s just been drill,” he said. He added that the 2018 to 2020 drill era feels nostalgic because it reminds him of secondary school, which gives the record a different emotional frame from his earlier work.

He also said the album is tied to a specific stretch of his life on the road. From August through November 25, he was on a mini tour that took him to Toronto, New York and LA, and he said he did not get home until November 25. During that period, he was not recording much music, and none of what he did record was for Terrified. Instead, he said the album is about that time and the feeling of having to come back to England to be outside the LA environment.

That detail gives Terrified a sharper edge than the slow drip of teasers suggests. The record is not just a collection of songs from a long gestation period; it is a response to a specific moment, shaped by travel, distance and the need to reset. For now, the biggest unanswered piece is the one fakemink is most careful to protect: the secret feature he says he cannot share yet.