Amber Hotel – Lean Closer EP

Step inside. The lights are low, the air is thick, and the night feels endless.
Welcome to Amber Hotel — five rooms, five stories, one descent into the heart of modern desire and disconnection.

Across Lean Closer, the Chicago-based trio turns post-punk and darkwave into a cinematic fever dream. It begins with Amber Hotel, a statement of intent — pulsing basslines, sharp guitars, and a voice that commands and confesses in the same breath. It’s not just a song; it’s an invitation. Check in, and let the walls start whispering.

From there, the descent deepens. Digital Ghost drifts through blue-light hauntings and broken connections. Automatic Devotion dances in obsession’s glow — seductive and claustrophobic all at once. Shadowed Face forces you to confront the version of yourself you’ve been hiding from, while Midnight’s Echo pulls you fully into the dark — a slow hypnosis where time dissolves and echoes replace memory.

Influenced by the timeless pulse of Bauhaus, The Cure, and She Wants Revenge, Lean Closer captures a world where emotion and machinery blur. Every track hums with the tension between control and surrender, reflection and release.

Amber Hotel isn’t nostalgia. It’s a mirror for now — flickering, dangerous, and alive.
Five songs. Five keys. One door you may not want to close again.

Welcome to Amber Hotel.
Check in. Lean closer. Don’t count on checking out.

Amber Hotel - Midnight's Echo

"Into the Sea" is the first single from an upcoming EP by Atlanta artist, MatAre.

Into the Sea

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FEELINGS

“555” is a hazy, noisy, bittersweet collection of shoegaze-driven stories — a chaotic blend of distortion, humor, exhaustion and dreamy melancholy.
It’s the soundtrack for anyone who’s tired of people, tired of work, tired of pretending… yet still finds a way to laugh.

Across fuzzy guitars, washed-out walls of sound, lazy garage drums and nostalgically broken textures, the album jumps between sarcasm, emotional truth and soft existential collapse.
Every track is its own little universe of noise, honesty and tiny rebellions.

This collection includes:

🌫️ “Petty Little Curses”

A playful shoegaze hex of harmless inconveniences. Fuzzy, sarcastic, and quietly wicked.

🌫️ “Fifteen Hours a Day”

A loud anti-work scream disguised as a dreamy shoegaze anthem. Burnout meets distortion.

🌫️ “People Make Me Tired”

The introvert anthem — hypnotic, looping, soft chaos for those who love their peace more than social energy.

⭐ “Welcome to the 90’s”

A nostalgic trip into the wild, unhinged childhood era of VHS noise, neon cereals and dial-up chaos.

🌫️ “Glass Between Us”

A cinematic, emotional shoegaze confession about distance, longing, and a connection that never fully aligned.

Glass Between Us

Yer divided
Too weak to tell
I asked who we do
Oh
I asked who we do
For a square?

I’m the ugly type too
Hot shit all up and down
You’re so lavender meaty
Well, well, guy
You’re flyin’, I’m cryin’

Words are chattel
Time tattled
Just like I sing at the moon, right?
We’re not here to have a battle
In fact, I’ve got nothing

One kiss to free you
Now dig down in
My bitter butterfly
And cream
New come on my muff

ミッシーガール - Whale

Future Lies

Original Song: Mystic Dream ~ Snow or Cherry Petal.
Original composition: Jun’ya Ōta (ZUN), Team Shanghai Alice.
Arrangement: Artifical Noise.
Touhou Project and its characters are © Team Shanghai Alice.
This is a non-commercial fan work with no official affiliation.
⚠️ Note: This track began as a fan arrangement of Mystic Dream ~ Snow or Cherry Petal by ZUN (Team Shanghai Alice).
Through the creative process it evolved with new structure, harmonies, and instrumentation.
While it may sound like an original piece, it is still based on Touhou Project and should be considered a fan arrangement.
This week I end the songs and I released the "album", I hope you like this!

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[[LYRICS]]

Abandoned like a vacant house
You’re left for dead
All of a sudden I seem to get it now
On the path that you bled
Below is matching the above
You’re close to giving up
Rather bite your tongue
You’re left with feeling numb

This field just rendered
Out of line breathe to center
In my mind I think it's my higher self
Trying to make me remember

Ooh
Breathe you in your essence in my CO2
Now we're dancing on the dark side of the moon

Life is born from darkness
Life is nourished by death

Abandoned like a vacant house
You’re left for dead
All of a sudden I seem to get it now
On the path that you bled
Below is matching the above
You’re close to giving up
Rather bite your tongue
You’re left with feeling numb

Can't grow without loss (without loss)
No clarity without chaos
Said we live just once (just once)
Well that's false (that's false)
Source told me within

Ooh
Breathe you in your essence in my CO2 (co2)
Now we're dancing on the dark side of the moon

Life is born from darkness
Life is nourished by death

Abandoned like a vacant house
You’re left for dead
All of a sudden I seem to get it now
On the path that you bled
Below is matching the above
You’re close to giving up
Rather bite your tongue
You’re left with feeling numb

Life is born from darkness
Life is nourished by death

as above so below

TELL HER ft. Bara

written and recorded by the stratton project

as above so below

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