Formerly known as Sylo Nozra, Toronto-born Korean-Canadian artist Sylo works in contrasts; plush falsetto and clipped beats, softness and structure. Rooted in alt-R&B, his sound has evolved into something bolder, brushing up against pop and electronic edges while always anchoring itself in feeling.
New single āCarve Me Outā feels like a reinvention - a shedding of skin soaked in melancholy, now drying under sunlight.
Syloās voice remains the constant: smooth even as the production around it grows sharper, more electronic. Pulsing synths and jagged guitar lines - think The xxās spectral textures - lace through the track, grounding the emotional restlessness in something tangible.
The song is born from a pivotal rupture; a long-term relationship, a familiar city and an old self left behind. āI spent the last four years with this person in the same city I was born in,ā Sylo reflects.
āI knew that for there to be real change in my lifeā, he adds, āI had to literally move to another country not just for her, but to move on from the old patterns, habits and behaviors that dictated so much of who I was. This song is that last piece to commemorate thatā.
š§ Watch the visualiser for āCarve Me Outā below