BOOMVISION - Arcade BOOMVISION

Boomvision is an Italo-British multidisciplinary artist crafting bold, emotionally charged music that blends ambient electronics, glitchy pop, and punk-rooted DIY ethos. Their debut solo project ‘Arcade’ is a genre-fluid visual album steeped in queer identity, modern mythology, and emotional storytelling. Entirely self-conceived and co-produced, the album introduces Boomvision as a powerful new creative voice: visionary, vulnerable, and defiantly original.

 
The single ‘Chun Li’ arrives 24 July, setting the tone for Arcade’s world of sonic archetypes and emotional alchemy. Named after the iconic Street Fighter character, the track is a defiant, high-energy anthem of resilience, driven by sharp beats, bursts of distortion, and Boomvision’s brooding, stirring vocals. Built around a looping vocal sample that brings a glitchy, arcade-style edge, it’s a track that channels strength through dissonance and play; a powerful, cathartic statement of intent.

 
“Chun-Li is the first female fighter in video game history. As an AFAB queer person who’s often existed in very male-dominated spaces, I always related to her,” Boomvision explains. “I connected with that attitude of: I’ll just do what I need to do, keep laughing, keep going, and I’ll get where I’m meant to be. Because I can. It doesn’t matter what you think I am.”

 
The release also lands just two days before the one-year anniversary of a serious road accident that left Boomvision recovering from a brain injury. An experience they describe as “a massive recovery year”. “I feel fucking lucky to be here, fully healthy and alive,” they say. That sense of defiance and gratitude threads through the track; a refusal to be flattened by expectation, injury, or identity.

 
Known for their work as a session musician and co-producer for artists including Kate Nash, Boomvision now steps fully into their own voice with a genre-fluid visual album that is as emotionally expansive as it is meticulously crafted. Alongside their artistic work, Boomvision is also a co-founder of Spark the Noise; a London-based non-profit that champions trans and FLINTA voices through music, workshops, and community-building. Born out of a desire to make creative spaces safer and more inclusive, the project has grown from a grassroots collective into a vital platform for queer expression, resistance, and joy.

 
Every track on ‘Arcade’ is named after a Street Fighter character, using those figures as emotional containers for real experiences. Written during a period of upheaval, navigating a breakup and coming out as non-binary, the album leans into fantasy and magic realism to tell a story of identity, power, and transformation.

 
“I asked myself: if my music was a comic book superhero of dreams, what would it sound like?” Boom says. “The answer was retro ‘90s badass. Street Fighter, Mad Max, bad CGI.”

 
The release date for ‘Chun Li’, July 24 - was chosen to align with the New Moon, tying into the project’s themes of mysticism and magic realism. It also lands just ahead of London Trans Pride, adding another layer of intention to a track that speaks to resilience, visibility and self-definition.

 
‘Arcade’ will be released 6 October, accompanied by a 35-minute visual album. A narrative film set in the fictional world of Mintaka, a place of tradition and control, where two Arcadian warriors rebel to rewrite the rules and rediscover themselves.