Mugun Returns With ‘Searching for Truth’ A Soundtrack for Inner-City Isolation
- Valentina Reynolds
- Oct 26
- 2 min read
Today, Mugun the Coventry-born artist who’s never quite played by the rules of UK rap returns with Searching for Truth, a track that feels like standing still while the world glitches around you.
The visuals grab you first. Like a trip ecstasy, maybe LSD or maybe this is just what it looks like inside Mugun’s mind when he closes his eyes. Saturated colours, sharp cuts, disorienting scenes. There’s no clear narrative. It’s not meant to be explained it’s meant to be felt.
Sonically, Searching for Truth pulls from the DNA of rave and the hardcore continuum, but it doesn’t sit still in those influences for long. The sound is dark, cold, self-produced, and dragging itself forward like it’s resisting gravity. It’s a little warped. A little broken. But on purpose.
Mugun’s never really belonged to one space. He grew up between Coventry and Jamaica, and you can hear both cities in his music. The calm and the chaos. He’s a skater, an anime geek, a product of the internet and SoundCloud, and someone who sees the grime scene from the outside in never trying to replicate what came before, only rewire it.
He’s been making music since his late teens, but the Mugun we hear now is different more precise, more deliberate. Since his 2023 EP Walking Street, he’s sharpened the vision. The floor-fillers are still there, the patois is still laced in, but now there’s more space. More tension. He’s not just experimenting he’s choosing.
“With ‘Searching for Truth’, I just wanted to give you a feel of the ambience and the inner-city loneliness we feel in Coventry,” he says. “So no matter where you are, you know we all feel it together.”
And that’s exactly what this track does. It holds that stillness. That familiar kind of heavy. The kind that lives between late buses and empty stairwells and the feeling of being invisible in your own city.
Searching for Truth doesn’t come with easy answers. But maybe Mugun isn’t searching for them anymore. Maybe he’s just showing us what it sounds like to live with the question.