Since his 2021 debut full-length Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020), the English producer’s albums have been carefully composed statements that reflect his life experiences. But Fred again..’s long-running—or, as he explains it, infinite—USB project is something else entirely. Begun in 2022 as a place to store and share some of his more free-wheeling tracks that don’t quite fit within his albums, the series has taken on a life of its own, correlated with his buzzy DJ sets where he might share the stage with Four Tet, Thomas Bangalter or ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U. “[USB] is just an endless album that I’ll add to forever,” he tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “Hopefully one day it’ll have 200 songs on it.” Joining older inclusions (“Baby again..” with Skrillex and Four Tet, edits of Future and Lil Yachty, and “Jungle”, a rare solo cut) are a glut of new collabs built for maximum rave impact, among them the Doechii-sampling “Victory Lap” with Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax and “you’re a star” with Australia’s Amyl and The Sniffers. Elsewhere are vocals from the Nigerian singer Winny and rappers like Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA, or co-productions with Caribou and Floating Points. “I like most the feeling of creating in a dialogue, like when the thing feels living and breathing,” Fred again.. says. “I’m playing edits all the time that are something I made that day—playing it that night and learning what I feel about it there. I think about [albums] as really intense and long-winded and they need to be diary entries and they need to feel like whole statements. And with this, it’s like, would I put these songs on my USB, and would I want to play them tonight for people? That’s the test.”