Welcome to the Basement saw Future>Now diving into darker, moodier territory while continuing their tradition of fusing old and new material. With brooding rhythms and introspective themes, the album explored concepts of isolation and rediscovery.

11 I Already Know

Blazing Stars is Mon’s debut indie-folk single, that explores themes of child-like wonder, longing, and our place in the universe. Built on textures of acoustic guitar and cello, it fuses ambient synths and vocal layering. Mon Bethelwood’s vocals are earthy and vulnerable, with lyrics that invite listeners into a soundscape that blurs the lines between past and future, self and cosmos.

Blazing Stars is available on Spotify and all major streaming platforms.

Blazing Stars

I always go out swimming, I always swim too deep...India Japan is about cognitive dissonance, let down and hope, the desire to fly away, and the fear to do so alone. Written and co-produced by Mon Bethelwood, executive producer and sound engineer Jason Merritt.

India Japan

Music: Little Man & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & Vocals: Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix: Little Man

(Sorry for the way I sing Chamber.. It came out in Norwegian /English 😂)

Lyrics:

Deep inside me I have a secret place
No one knows about it
You can't see it on my face
There I can hide what I don't won't you to see
Love and anger
The truth about me..

Chorus:
In my little Chamber, my secrets are safe
And maybe one day I will take you to that place
Every tear I never showed
The words I never said
Are hidden in my chamber
My true self is there

All the love I never got to share
The pain and sorrow
It's all hidden there
All the frustration I had to put away
The honest words I couldn't say..

Chorus

Chorus

Deep inside me I have a secret place
No one knows about it
You can't see it on my face
There I can hide what I don't want you to see
Love and anger
The truth about me...

Chorus

Every tear I never showed
The words I never said
Are hidden in my chamber
My true self is there...

My Little Chamber

I did this about a year ago -- posting again because I reworked it a bit, and I just really like the tune. The 2nd & 3rd verses were inspired by a fellow SoundCloud member's life events. 

Is it There

one two three four five six seven
all good children go to heaven

is it there
is it right there by your side

while you were sleeping
a summer rain fell through the night
(hear the sound of the falling rain there in the night)
and the taste of bitter dreams became sweeter
with the gentle sound in your mind
(knowing that soon the sun will rise leaving the night behind)

is it there to remind
that everything will be alright

I put down the page knowing there was no turning back
I watched her breathing in the sacred arc of life
I wandered alone in a hallway lit by an exit light

so much time when you were young
didn't feel the pendulum
now the saturnine faces of the ones we love
you wonder why

if I could have anything that I could keep safe and never undone
I would hold you in this fragile moment in the september sun
it means everything to have you near me





Is it There

YOU TOOK THE LOAD OFF OF ME
AND… SOMEHOW SET ME FREE, 
BELIEVE ME

THERE WAS SO MUCH I COULDN’T SEE, ANYMORE
I’D FORGOTTEN IT ALL… 
YOU SAW ME FALL

ROUND & ROUND & ROUND WE GO 
WE HIT A WALL AND COME TO A STALL
AND OUR FLIGHT IS DELAYED, 
MAYBE FOREVER DELAYED 

ANYWHERE YOU GO, I’LL BE THERE
WAITING… JUST DON’T DISAPPEAR                
HOWEVER MUCH IT RAINS 
I’LL GET RID OF THE STAINS
AND I’LL BE THERE, 
FOR YOU I’LL BE THERE
YOU TOOK THE LOAD OFF OF ME 
AND I FEEL FREE





Taking the Load Off

2025 Dignity & Truth by winkandwoo & Billy Korg
Lyrics and vocals by winkandwoo

LYRICS:
Could I walk down the street
With my head high
If I didn't question
All the reasons why...
That our "leaders"
Pretend to care 'bout us
But do the opposite
That's treasonous

So sick of this veil of deception
Whether right or wrong at inception
The only way has
Dignity and truth
Open up the windows for us
Let the light shine in dark corners
The only way has
Dinity and truth

We should peacefuly stand
And not comply
Every woman every man
Should now ask why...
Do we pay to a system
That don't work
Before it gets better
It's gonna hurt

Billy Kork/ winkandwoo 2025

Dignity and Truth

My love is coming down now
to set me free.
She rides on the sun's rays
when she wants to visit me
and by the moon in the night
but she always seems to go away
before I've had enough of the dream.

Smile laugh and dance in the rain
from time to time.
The world will take 
everything you've got
and give it away.

Give me the facts
and proceed to collapse.
Summarize and discern and unlearn.
All I ever wanted was absurd.
All I never needed seemed to go 
without words

and it tears me apart
when I consider too much
but I obliterate the thought
because of the hex
upon everything I touch.
I try my best to stop it
but it seems like
I don't have the option
until I've learned my lesson.

Burning down the house tonight.
Don't go home until the morning comes.
The freaks and fiends are out tonight
and they're starving
for some of
everything you've got.
Watch your back
They'll never be caught
They can vanish in a blink.

Creatures in the Dark

'couldn't forget' with Seafoam Sweater Girl.

Seafoam Sweater Girl: lyrics, vocals, guitar.
Scotty: acoustic pearl export, fender 3/4 bass, epiphone casino

couldn't forget (with Seafoam Sweater Girl)

Mist

the angels guide me

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11 I Already Know

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