Norwegian music producer FAKETHIAS will self-release his long-awaited debut album, Core Echo, on November 17th. He announces the album with lead single “Euphoria Loop” – a track that pushes at the outer limits of shoegaze, by mixing super-sweet vocal melodies and driving guitars with ultra-processed industrial textures.

Core Echo is written, performed and produced by FAKETHIAS (and co-produced by Vetle Junker), and it marks a bold new direction for an artist who’s made his name in the worlds of noise, ambient and experimental club music. His vision is to find pockets of beauty and harmony in the zones where opposing ideas clash, by combining his signature production techniques with more traditional songwriting done on a “shitty” guitar at home. “I’m way more inspired by accidents than anything else,” FAKETHIAS says, “I like creating the potential for beautiful mistakes.”

These are simple, warm and pleasing songs at their core, but surrounded by thick sonic weather. On “Skin”, his hypnotic vocals glide over skittering beats and evocative textures to create a feeling that’s altogether transcendent. “Navel” is a ghostly acoustic song with a subtle fuzz around its edges, whereas the titular song “Core Echo” is a wall of fierce and impenetrable noise that eventually resolves itself into a heartbreakingly tender refrain. This is a world-building album of stark contrasts, of electronic and analog, brightness and darkness, hope and devastation.

All tracks written & produced by FAKETHIAS

Vocal, programming, electric guitar, acoustic guitar and bass guitar by FAKETHIAS

Drums, bass guitar, additional electric guitar, violin, percussion and synth by Vetle Junker

Additional engineering and co-production (tracks 2-9) by Vetle Junker

Mixed and mastered by Henrik Haraldsen Sveen

Artwork by Sam Clarke

FAKETHIAS - Core Echo

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"Me & You" releases June 2, 2023

‘Me & You’ is Betty Hammerschlag’s first Transatlantic venture. It’s made up of unwound and reconstituted pop fragments, spun out and stretched and remoulded to hypnotise. It captures the gloss and sentiment of mass-audience chart-toppers, pitch-perfect music calibrated for maximal emotional resonance, and refracts it to dazzling, intimate effect.

Opener ‘Boyfriend’ is pure pining, a swarm of stomach butterflies in flight. ‘Focusedd’ floats a breathy Bieber vocal shard over a circuitous Harry Styles acapella, made weightless by delicate synth caresses. It’s imperfect and warm, like reconstructed memories. The golden-pink haze of ‘You Know Wassup’ stands as the EP’s centrepiece, a swoon-inducing soft-focus heartstopper made to sigh to. These songs caress and pulse with new life, synthetic pop outputs rendered organic. Pure feeling.
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Production & Arrangement by Betty Hammerschlag
Artwork by Betty Hammerschlag
Words by Madjestic Kasual
Mastered by Ax Emblem f.k.a Cellvl

Me & You

Betty Hammerschlag - Bodiesss

Co-produced by Vetle Junker
Mixed and mastered by Henrik Haraldsen Sveen
Artwork by Sam Clarke

Euphoria Loop

Skin

Pitch Depression

Daybreak

Perfect Angel

Freak Mode

Time to speak

Wiry - Dorsal
Format: Digital / CD
Release Date: 7th of October, 2024
Mastered by Wiry
Cover by Wiry
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Wiry - Helmet

House Garden

(McMann [McMahon] & Mainieri; arr. Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synths and sequencer programming, samples and sample editing, and 'found sounds'
Bones1327 of FUTURE SMITH [ ]: guitars
Composed and Recorded ca. 1987 to June 16, 2025.
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Together, Michael Ash Sharbaugh and Bones1327 make up the duo, ÆR. You can discover them here ... on SoundCloud: [ https://soundcloud.com/aer-official ]

Cry Little Sister

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"Cry Little Sister" ('Lost Boys' theme song)  by ÆR (Michael Ash Sharbaugh & ~BONES1327~)

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Originally made in 24 hours for artbyFORM's All Nighter 10

Lyrics (2L&L):

Basement motel
I'm out the precinct for now
I want a listening town
Don't want to listen
Don't want to listen
And when I move out loud
Make me move so alone
I frontrun for now, so I can
hold my love, my love, my love

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