Warm Cyborgs [2025 Remastered Edition]

Artwork Partially AI Generated

Artist:
Jonathan Hadley

Release Date:
June 2, 2025

Record Label:
Abrasive Monologues

Writing Credits

Musical Composition:
J E Jackson

Lyrics:
J E Jackson

Musical Performance:
Above the Snow Line – Synth & Programming
Cobey Rokes – Synth & Programming
James Wright – Drums & Percussion
Jonathan Hadley – Vocals
Kanilrós – Guitars
Kian Dray – Synth & Programming
Mario Marino – Synth & Programming
Only the Host- Drums & Percussion
Prime Birds – Guitar
Teddy Head – Bass Guitar

Production Credits

Mixing:
Jonathan Hadley

Mastering:
Jonathan Hadley

Jon Hadley

Jonathan Hadley

Bio:

Jonathan Hadley is a musician and producer whose work explores atmosphere, texture, and emotionally direct songwriting. He is the founder of Abrasive Monologues, an independent artist collective and label, and releases music both under his own name and through collaborative projects within the roster.

Jon Hadley writes music like memories… out of order, half-lit, and sharper than it should be. As the founder of Abrasive Monologues, he builds sonic and narrative spaces where friction is never a flaw… it’s the point. His work moves between music, philosophy, and narrative realism, often circling themes of cost, love, and structural truth. When he’s not writing, he’s architecting systems that let other artists do the same… louder, cleaner, and with more control than the industry ever wanted to give them.

About this release

CONTENT ADVISORY – Emotional Themes
This album explores themes of trauma, abandonment,
identity, self-harm, emotional survival, and healing. It
may be activating for listeners living with C-PTSD, BPD or
other trauma-related experience. Please take care of
yourself as you listen.

At one time I thought Warm Cyborgs was simpler than it really is. It's about what I said it was about originally which you can read below, but there's another element to it that I hadn't initially realized. Warm Cyborgs also navigates my personal internal struggle with a mental illness that causes me to feel hopelessly isolated, unwanted and unloved. Now that I know that the struggles I'm living with have a name, I'm working through them. Warm Cyborgs still stands as a testament to how I became this way. It's a reaction to childhood trauma, caused partially by the advent of the internet. I'm not alone. Many in my age range had a parent become hopelessly addicted to the internet, and were basically abandoned at a very young age, in favor of the original doom scroll. Digital people that were more important than the people they created.

— Original Description —

Warm Cyborgs explores the degradation of humanity and emotion brought on by the advent of constant technology interface such as cellular devices, connected TVs, Social Media. All of these inventions have proven both beneficial and detrimental. Society has largely lost its ability to speak with any eloquence. Conversations are a query, followed by a set of impersonal results.

Warm Cyborgs examines the escape from that utopia back into a world that is real. A world that hurts, and dies.

Jon Hadley, in conjunction with Abrasive Monologues, Above the Snow Line, Mario Marino, Only the Host, Prime Birds, Cobey Rokes and Kian Dray, Kanilros and Daniel Blackmore present… Warm Cyborgs.

AI Disclosure

Artificial Intelligence Disclosure
No AI was used in this production