It explores the inner experience of ADHD, particularly growing up undiagnosed and learning, much later, that many things once understood as personal failings had another context.
Across the album, electronic textures and guitar-led alternative rock carry songs about confusion, masking, anxiety, memory, shame, creativity, dark humour and emotional overload. Some are serious, some sarcastic and some deliberately ridiculous. Together they describe the gap between how life looks from the outside and how it feels inside.
The name comes from the idea of a mental system overload: thoughts locking up, emotions crashing, and the feeling of needing to reboot without knowing how.
- ExpectedJanuary 2027
- FormatsDigital, CD and black vinyl
- GenreAlternative rock
- BasedScotland
The album
Project Blue Screen began as a way of holding together songs, essays, visuals and fragments from the same emotional world. The album is now the centre of that wider body of work: eight songs about looking back at a life and realising that some things blamed on effort, discipline or character always had another context.
It is being written and recorded independently. The Kickstarter is the next step in turning it from a collection of digital recordings into a tangible release on CD and black vinyl.
Confirmed track listing
The songs are confirmed, but their final running order has not yet been decided.
- Wildflowers
- Bathtoast
- Mad World — a Fauhn cover of the song written by Roland Orzabal
- Everyone Hates Me So Why Shouldn't I?
- Blue Screen of Life
- All That Almost Was
- Half-Built Cathedrals
- Patch Notes for a Broken Mind
Why Kickstarter
The music has been written and recorded independently. Kickstarter is a way of taking Fauhn beyond digital tracks and making physical editions that belong to the same world as the album.
The campaign will support production of the digital release, CD and black vinyl, alongside a small range of connected physical rewards. Final artwork is still being developed, so the current blue imagery represents the project rather than the finished album cover.
What it is not
Project Blue Screen is not a medical resource, a diagnosis guide, or a set of answers. It is personal writing and music, made from lived experience rather than clinical authority.
It is not a neat recovery story either. The point is not to turn difficulty into a clean arc, or to make late understanding sound like a sudden cure.
It is also not the whole of Fauhn. Not every song belongs here. Some tracks are playful, satirical, or purely experimental. Others explore different themes entirely, shaped by the wider background of Fauhn as a project.
Project Blue Screen simply marks a particular lane. A specific conversation.
Themes inside the album
Much of the project circles around undiagnosed ADHD, masking, emotional overload, shame, self-blame, memory, childhood, creativity, and the ways humour can become both cover and release.
These themes are not treated as abstractions. They appear through small moments: the task that will not start, the feeling that everyone else has instructions you missed, the joke that hides something heavier, the song that says more than you expected it to.
Listen and read
The clearest background piece is What Undiagnosed ADHD Feels Like, which sets out much of the lived experience underneath the project.
Notes on Wildflowers sits close to the beginning. It looks at one of the first songs that made these themes visible in the music.
Everyone Hates Me moves into rejection sensitivity and the internal voice that can turn uncertainty into certainty.
Bathtoast deals with ADHD, depression, dark humour, and a lyric that felt difficult but necessary to keep.
Blue Screen of Life is closest to the name of the project itself: overload, shutdown, memory, and the image of a system that has stopped responding.
Companion mini-album
Noise Between Thoughts is a six-track companion mini-album due alongside Project Blue Screen in January 2027. It will be available digitally and on CD as a Kickstarter add-on, but it is not the campaign's main release.
Questions
When is the album expected?
The current release timeframe is January 2027.
Which formats are planned?
Project Blue Screen is planned for digital release, CD and standard black vinyl.
Is this the final track order?
No. These eight songs are confirmed for the album, but the running order is still being decided.
Is Project Blue Screen medical advice?
No. The songs and writing come from lived experience. They are not a medical resource, diagnosis guide or set of clinical answers.
Project Blue Screen is about understanding what was missed, what was misread and what was quietly carried for years. It is not about diagnosis as an answer, but diagnosis as context.