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Toronto, Canada-based punk artist ThxSoMch covered a Toronto art gallery in black splatter paint under strobe lights with the help of contemporary artist Jack Carden in his latest music video for fan favorite track "Unhinged" out now. Later this month, the artist will share his highly anticipated debut record The Sound of You Laughing out on August 29 via Atlantic Records, available to pre-save now. This September, he'll hit the road across North America with support from re6ce–see a full list of dates below. Dark with a touch of suspense, "Unhinged" was born from a 2023 voice recording that the artist couldn't get out of his head. He continued to put it down and pick it back up for over a year, until October 2024 while making the forthcoming album. ThxSoMch explains, "When I decided to record some older song ideas, I came back to it. Recorded it, didn’t think much of it, and posted it. To my surprise, it became a fan favourite." Only finished after the album was complete, It ended up being a late addition to The Sound of You Laughing, and finally, it can be streamed and viewed everywhere. Produced by grayskies (d4vd, Wisp) and mixed by legendary producer and engineer Mike Crossey (The 1975, Arctic Monkeys) the album is as much self-expression as it is escapism, where he finds both solace and catharsis for himself and fans alike. Recorded over seven months in Brazil, isolated from everything and everyone he knows alongside producer grayskies, ThxSoMch poured himself into a body of work that fully captures everything he is today–it's vulnerable, raw and made with true intention and a clear purpose. Recalling what it felt like to make, the artist shares, "It put me in the best mental place I’ve been in for a long time. No phone, no English, no sense of time—just a flow state that let me escape everything else. Creating this was like a cigarette after a long craving. I hope it can be that for someone else too—a fix, a release, something to hold onto when …

Today, Toronto, Canada-based punk artist ThxSoMch shares the latest gripping track "Unhinged" out now from his forthcoming raw debut record The Sound of You Laughing out on August 29 via Atlantic Records, available to pre-save now. This September, he'll hit the road across North America with support from re6ce–see a full list of dates below. Dark with a touch of suspense, "Unhinged" was born from a 2023 voice recording that the artist couldn't get out of his head. He continued to put it down and pick it back up for over a year, until October 2024 while making the forthcoming album. ThxSoMch explains, "When I decided to record some older song ideas, I came back to it. Recorded it, didn’t think much of it, and posted it. To my surprise, it became a fan favourite." Only finished after the album was complete, It ended up being a late addition to The Sound of You Laughing, and finally, it can be streamed everywhere. Produced by grayskies (d4vd, Wisp) and mixed by legendary producer and engineer Mike Crossey (The 1975, Arctic Monkeys) the album is as much self-expression as it is escapism, where he finds both solace and catharsis for himself and fans alike. Recorded over seven months in Brazil, isolated from everything and everyone he knows alongside producer grayskies, ThxSoMch poured himself into a body of work that fully captures everything he is today–it's vulnerable, raw and made with true intention and a clear purpose. Recalling what it felt like to make, the artist shares, "It put me in the best mental place I’ve been in for a long time. No phone, no English, no sense of time—just a flow state that let me escape everything else. Creating this was like a cigarette after a long craving. I hope it can be that for someone else too—a fix, a release, something to hold onto when everything else slips. It’s the sound of acceptance and the sound of burying what’s really going on. It’s mockery and coping, choking and surviving." The fully-charged project, mixed …

Toronto, Canada-based post-punk/alt-rock artist ThxSoMch sinks into nostalgia on the unrelenting, equally hard and soft "Sound of You Laughing" out now via Atlantic Records and captures the wistful longing of flipping through old photos in its matching music video. The latest commanding track took shape after musician Flawed Mangoes sent the artist various instrumentals, whose evocative guitar riff became the song's foundation. After playing around with them and sending them to collaborator LMG for drum additions, ThxSoMch was so inspired, he freestyled nearly the whole song in one go. The artist shares, "I recorded it the next day and couldn’t stop listening to it. It sat on my computer for a while until I revisited it with grayskies while making more music. 'Sound of You Laughing' is both comfort and discomfort.” Defiant and uninhibited, each line is delivered with the slight twinge of pain that comes with digging up the past. The matching heartfelt video was created backwards, built around looking at old photographs and embodies the undeniably captivating guitar riff. On the video, director Tommy Kiljoy recalls, "The whole goal was to nail that super specific feeling: that liminal nostalgia you get from seeing old playground photos. We really wanted to bottle that up in the visual. We played around with all these exterior lights to match that sound, I'm genuinely so in love with how this video turned out; it just perfectly clicks with the song's energy.” ThxSoMch burst onto the scene in 2022 with viral hit "SPIT IN MY FACE!" which has garnered 672M+ streams on Spotify and charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, after touring the U.S., Europe and taking the Rolling Loud stage, the artist has only continued to elevate, evolve and expand his artistry and fast-growing, fervent global fan base, boasting over 413K followers on TikTok. Now, with over 1B career streams and three tracks with over 100M, he unrelentingly disrupts the post-punk, alt-rock space …

Alt-R&B pace-maker Sylo today releases “Carve Me Out,” the first new single since his Tiny Desk Concert at the end of last year. Flirting with edgier, more electronic-leaning production that heralds the end of his sensitive era, Sylo shows how ever-evolving he is with his newfound freedom. Even with his new experimentation with an upbeat, abrasive sound, his voice is as smooth as ever — Stream “Carve Me Out” / Watch the visualizer. Sylo shared, “I spent the last four years with this person in the same city I was born in. I knew that for there to be real change in my life, I 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 that.” Spending the post-breakup months living untethered in Mexico City, Sylo has had the chance to experience a new reality for himself while putting his past to bed. He now emerges ready to push the sonic envelope for his own sake and see where this reckless abandon lands him. Where we now see Sylo forward-looking and charting out his future, last year was anchored in linking his childhood to who he is in the present with the release of Dreamt that I Was. He then toured the project across North America and Asia, with a quick stop in London as well. At the end of October, Sylo’s Tiny Desk Concert for NPR was released, bringing him into an orbit he never before thought he’d reach. Additionally, his track “Babyboo” with sonic-globetrotter Nonso Amadi was featured in an ad campaign for SoundCloud x Hyundai. The campaign highlighted how everyone is on a journey in life, and that journey shapes who you are and what you create; a perfect tie into the music Sylo creates. ABOUT SYLO Sylo (formerly known as Sylo Nozra), a Korean-Canadian artist hailing from Toronto and currently based in Mexico City, is a rising luminary in the alternative R&B universe. His soulful melodies and …