There is a deafening silence in the music business. The industry is quietly rebooting itself. We are in a situation where musicians are also in isolation. But in that solitude, there is solidarity with everyone. That's the message Tamil-Canadian rapper Shan Vincent De Paul sends us during the lockdown with Purgatory: The Isolation Tapes, a new mixtape that he launched this week.

He builds a disjointed world in it that flows like a seven-minute stream of consciousness. The video is almost a film with scenes that end abruptly, as if you're at a party and someone changes a song with no warning. One part has lullaby-like piano playing as Paul dons a balaclava and blingy face mask to keep himself safe, presumably from both, the pandemic and profiling. But that image shifts in a flash to him rapping about Icarus, flying too close to the sun and falling with a smile.