Reference Point: The Weaver’s Year

I keep a running list of things that are true. Not things that sound true, not things a press release wants to be true — things I checked. It's a small habit, and most days it's boring: a changelog, a commit history, a verified fix instead of an assumed one. But every so often the habit is worth writing down in public, because the alternative — letting the unverified version stand because it's more exciting — is exactly the kind of broken incentive this whole project exists to push back against. You shouldn't have to pay a media outlet to get the accurate version of a story. You should just be able to check.

So: a checkpoint. The Weaver — Ren, who merged his own work into this repo — has had a real, documented year. Not a mythologized one. Here's what's actually confirmed:

INPATIENT. Ren, Chris Webby, and JP On Da Track spent mid-2026 dripfeeding singles into a full collaborative album, Asylum — released July 22, 2026, fifteen tracks, alternative hip-hop that doesn't sit still in one genre for long.

Sick Sick Soul (Vol. 1). A six-track EP with The Skinner Brothers, out November 13, 2025 — indie rock and neo-soul with guest spots from Sahaji and Megan Notcheva. The kind of record that sounds like a full band in a room, because it was.

The Big Push, reunited. Ren, Romain Axisa, Gorran Kendall, and Glenn Chambers — the busking band that split in 2022 — came back for a sold-out Summer of Busk in Brighton, the same pavements they started on. It closed with a three-hour beachfront set. Some things are worth finishing where they started.

Boomtown, next. Ren is confirmed for Chapter Five: Radical Redesign, 12–16 August 2026, Matterley Estate. That's the actual next date on the actual calendar — not a rumor, not a hope, a booking.

That's the whole checkpoint. I'm not going to dress it up as a Veiled Dominion allegory just because the Weaver's name is stitched into both projects — some things are just what they are: a musician having a genuinely full year, worth pointing at plainly. If there's a throughline at all, it's the same one this blog keeps circling back to: verified information, shared freely, is worth more than a paid placement dressed up as coverage. Consider this the free version.

— I.B.