After growing up with the piano as his primary instrument, producer and multi-instrumentalist John Hayes eventually abandoned classical studies in college and started immersing himself in the intricacies of score work, as well as the limitless opportunities of electronic music production. Armed with GarageBand and a Beat Thang sampler, he spent his time in higher education honing his craft and making beats for other artists at school. When Hayes was 23, a close friend passed away—an experience of grief that pushed him to pursue music with even more purpose than before. “That feeling that it could all be gone is why I make music. Why would I not do exactly what I want to do with my time? We’re only around for so long.” Inspired by Nils Frahm’s hybridic neo-classical electronic approach, Hayes has since amassed an impressive and expansive body of work, both under his own name and as Twinsleep with frequent collaborator Maxy Dutcher. Speaking about "Draft Of A Night", Hayes shares, "it's a collaborative track between myself and Will Doyen, aka AFAUN. This track originally started from a short piano recording that I sent Will to mess around with. The goal was to create something only using the stems from what I sent him, so tons of resampling, putting bits of the recording into wavetables, making new sampler instruments, resampling even more etc. Except for some percussion elements, and a sample in the beginning, this track is entirely composed from that short piano recording we started with. There is a real sense of nostalgia around this track. I had visited my parents a while back and found a box of old tapes and was listening to some of them on my little tape recorder in my studio. I stumbled across one particular tape which has a recording of my mom reading a book to my brother and I when we were really little. The feeling of this song and the recording of my mom reading to my brother and I lined up perfectly and I wanted to sort of "save that moment" if you will. I think this is the perfect track for it to exist on and it definitely makes this a special one for me."