diff --git a/src/views/CatalogArtist.svelte b/src/views/CatalogArtist.svelte
index 5a81919..a213339 100644
--- a/src/views/CatalogArtist.svelte
+++ b/src/views/CatalogArtist.svelte
@@ -750,6 +750,12 @@
         }
         if (!page || !band || !scroller) return;
 
+        // Compositor-driven fade line where supported (Chromium 115+). When
+        // it is, apply() no longer touches --flow-cut per frame — the CSS
+        // scroll timeline owns it — so a fast scroll can't outrun the mask.
+        const scrollDriven =
+            typeof CSS !== "undefined" && CSS.supports("animation-timeline", "scroll()");
+
         // Infinity until measured, and again if there is somehow no room to
         // ride up in: --p then stays 0 and the page is simply the page it is
         // today, which is the right way for this to fail.
@@ -896,6 +902,16 @@
             }
             stripCut =
                 BAND_TOP + strip + Math.round(rowBottom) + 2 - (body?.offsetTop ?? 0);
+
+            // Base for the compositor-driven fade line (CSS @keyframes
+            // flow-cut-ride). Only base is needed — the keyframe delta and
+            // animation-range are a fixed oversized constant, so the value
+            // rides scroll as base + scrollTop with no dependence on the
+            // scroller's (here scroll-varying) total range. stripCut is
+            // scroll-invariant by construction, so this is stable.
+            if (scrollDriven) {
+                page.style.setProperty("--flow-cut-base", `${stripCut.toFixed(1)}px`);
+            }
         }
 
         function apply() {
@@ -904,8 +920,12 @@
             // The fade line rides EVERY frame — including past the park,
             // where --p is pinned at 1 but the rows keep scrolling under the
             // banner. It must not sit behind the p-guard below, or the mask
-            // freezes at the park and rows climb over the banner.
-            page.style.setProperty("--flow-cut", `${(stripCut + scrollTop).toFixed(1)}px`);
+            // freezes at the park and rows climb over the banner. Skipped when
+            // the CSS scroll timeline owns --flow-cut (see scrollDriven) — that
+            // path can't lag the native scroll the way this rAF could.
+            if (!scrollDriven) {
+                page.style.setProperty("--flow-cut", `${(stripCut + scrollTop).toFixed(1)}px`);
+            }
             const p = Math.min(1, Math.max(0, scrollTop / travel));
             if (p === previous) return;
             previous = p;
@@ -3687,6 +3707,48 @@
         );
     }
 
+    /* --flow-cut on the COMPOSITOR. The mask lives in .scrollbody's local box,
+       which scrolls, so the cut stop must ride scroll to stay at a fixed
+       screen line (= stripCut + scrollTop). Driving that from a rAF lagged the
+       native scroll by a frame on fast flicks, so rows briefly poked ABOVE the
+       cut before the mask caught up (user-reported). A scroll-driven animation
+       makes --flow-cut a pure function of scroll position evaluated on the
+       compositor — it can never lag.
+
+       The animation range and the keyframe delta are the SAME oversized
+       constant (RIDE_PX, far beyond any real page's scroll), so at scroll s
+       the interpolated value is base + (s/RIDE_PX)*RIDE_PX = base + s exactly,
+       with NO dependence on the scroller's total range — which is essential
+       here because the artist page changes its own content height as it
+       scrolls (the tab-grid space reserve), so the total range is not even a
+       constant. measure() writes only base (= stripCut, scroll-invariant).
+       Where scroll-driven animations are unsupported, apply() keeps setting
+       --flow-cut per frame (the @supports gate leaves that path untouched). */
+    @property --flow-cut {
+        syntax: "<length>";
+        inherits: true;
+        initial-value: -99999px;
+    }
+    @keyframes flow-cut-ride {
+        from {
+            --flow-cut: var(--flow-cut-base, -99999px);
+        }
+        to {
+            /* base + RIDE_PX; RIDE_PX must equal the animation-range end. */
+            --flow-cut: calc(var(--flow-cut-base, -99999px) + 100000px);
+        }
+    }
+    @supports (animation-timeline: scroll()) {
+        .artist-page[data-scroll="1"] .scrollbody {
+            animation-name: flow-cut-ride;
+            animation-duration: auto;
+            animation-timing-function: linear;
+            animation-fill-mode: both;
+            animation-timeline: scroll(nearest block);
+            animation-range: 0px 100000px;
+        }
+    }
+
     /* Nothing but the controls themselves may take clicks: the block spans the
        pane and floats over the track list once it has parked. */
     .idpin {