GRAVITY A late-night drift through grief where love doesn’t disappear… it just changes form. What’s gone still has weight. What’s broken still exerts pull. Heavy guitars, fractured vocals, & a heart caught in orbit.. circling something it can’t touch, yet can’t escape the force they leave behind, when they’re no longer there.more

Backstage : https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRn8RMEu/ Description : "Fake Skinner Box" comes from a very personal realization about the way I used to experience love. For a long time, I confused inconsistency with intensity. I thought emotional unpredictability meant depth. Looking back, I understand that I was reacting to intermittent reinforcement, the same psychological mechanism used in gambling machines. Sometimes you receive attention, affection, reassurance… then suddenly distance, silence, detachment. Your brain keeps playing because it remembers the reward, even when the system itself is hurting you. That is why the artwork matters so much to me. The slot machine in the back of the pickup truck is not there as decoration. The heart symbols replace the classic casino icons because the addiction here is emotional, not financial. The title "Fake Skinner Box" reflects the illusion itself: a system that feels like love while actually conditioning emotional dependency through unpredictability. The mannequin represents something equally important. I wanted it to feel commercially perfect but emotionally empty, like a symbol of projection, artificial validation and disposable attachment culture. Romy is still driving forward while carrying both the machine and the mannequin behind her, literally transporting the remains of an emotional conditioning she no longer wants to live inside. Musically, I wanted the track to feel hypnotic rather than explosive. The production is built around repetition, tension and release cycles, mirroring the behavioral loop the song talks about. The instrumental keeps a pulse driven structure, almost mechanical at times, while preserving enough emotional air for vulnerability to breathe inside the mix. Instead of overwhelming the listener with constant density, the arrangement evolves progressively through textures, restrained layering and subtle dynamic transitions, creating the sensation of being emotionally pulled back into the same cycle again and again. Vocally, the idea was to stay between lucidity and emotional relapse. I did not want a perfectly controlled performance. Some vocal moments intentionally sound restrained, fragile or slightly destabilized, as if Romy is trying to remain rational while emotionally replaying a pattern she finally understands but still feels attached to. Everything in the song follows the same conceptual direction. The warm California sunset, the nostalgic atmosphere and the open road visually suggest freedom. But behind Romy, the machine is still glowing in the back of the truck, waiting for another emotional reward cycle to begin. That contradiction is the real heart of "Fake Skinner Box". A relationship can look beautiful from the outside while functioning internally like a conditioning system built on emotional uncertainty.more

"Uninvited" is probably one of the coldest emotional songs I've written, even though it lives inside a very warm aesthetic. That contradiction is the core of the track. The song talks about someone who keeps existing mentally long after they no longer truly belong in your life. A presence that keeps returning in silence without permission, almost like a reflex left inside the nervous system. The writing revolves around the illusion of relief. At first, I describe distance as something healthy, almost liberating. I thought I was regaining control by creating space, meeting new people, moving forward. But as the song progresses, it becomes clear that the emptiness never actually disappeared. The others slowly turn into blurred outlines, incomplete copies, temporary distractions. The chorus acts like a mental relapse. The line "The more I fight it, the more it lingers like something I can't diagnose" represents the entire emotional mechanism of the song. The more I try to rationalize or suppress the feeling, the more diffuse and invasive it becomes. Musically, I built the track to mirror that internal process. The verses stay restrained and almost breathed rather than fully projected, with spacious instrumentation that leaves a lot of air inside the mix. The acoustic guitars and clean textures create a false sense of calm, like someone trying to remain functional while their mind keeps spiraling underneath. Then the chorus suddenly opens the space with heavier guitars and wider drums, but without becoming fully explosive. I wanted the rise to feel more like emotional pressure overflowing than a traditional rock climax. The song intentionally relies on progressive dynamics instead of massive drops. The drums remain controlled, almost heartbeat-like at times. The layers accumulate slowly rather than arriving all at once, which creates the feeling of obsessive thoughts taking more and more space without immediately noticing the breaking point. Vocally, the performance stays between restraint and emotional fracture. I did not want something overly theatrical. The voice had to sound like someone still trying to maintain composure while constantly being pulled back into unresolved memories. Even the pauses and breaths are part of the emotional architecture of the track. The cover artwork extends the exact same idea visually. The Californian sunset setting looks romantic and cinematic at first glance, but the male figure is actually a plastic mannequin. Everything appears beautiful on the surface, yet something immediately feels emotionally wrong. It perfectly represents a projected relationship, something idealized and reconstructed mentally more than something truly alive. Romy is looking at something shaped like a partner, but incapable of responding like a human being. The warm sunset contrasts with the emotional emptiness of the scene. Even the balanced composition of the artwork reinforces the idea of a relationship frozen inside an aesthetically perfect but emotionally motionless moment. Technically, I also kept a lot of breathing space in the mix instead of crushing the track with excessive loudness compression. The song stays emotionally dense while remaining open and dynamic. The choruses become wider without saturating the entire spectrum, allowing the melancholy to stay intelligible instead of disappearing behind pure power. "Uninvited" ultimately speaks less about heartbreak itself and more about psychological persistence. The moment when someone continues to exist internally long after the relationship has already ended.more