Tyler GUnz
PRESS KIT
the time is now…
My earlier forays into the music industry were focused on Audio Engineering and Production, most recently Noora’s “Retrograde EP” in 2019. I’ve been tempted to release music on my own for years now but wanted to wait for the right time.
What does it sound like?
My music is honest, emotional, and genre bending. I have a taste for more organic elements like strings, piano, and very natural sounding drums. A lot of my production personality comes from creative engineering tricks, filtering and resampling that I use to process those natural sounding elements. I also write primarily on guitar and love a good jazz chord progression. It’s all about adding to the emotion of the song!
My vocal style has been compared to John Mayer, Damien Rice, and Chris Martin of Coldplay. Expect lots of harmonies and refreshingly different melodies.
Vulnerability is my specialty…
Music is medicine for me. I use it to capture events and emotions in my life to share with the world in hopes of making a real connection. I want people to really feel something when they hear my songs. I want to open people up by shamelessly proclaiming emotions and thoughts they may be hanging on to but haven’t fully expressed. I promised myself if I was to ever release music as an artist it would be an honest representation of what I’ve been through. I believe raw honesty is the best way to connect with people, we all have so much more in common than we think sometimes.
“no Thank you”
behind the song…
Shutting out depression strengthens it, while you hide from it, it grows. This song is about being brave enough to shine a light on the darkness inside ourselves. Some people are afraid of their own thoughts, and for good reason. You can't always change what's inside of you, but you must certainly make peace with it, whatever it is. There's nothing wrong with indulging in distractions from time to time, but eventually you've got to dig inside and do the work, crawl through the dark places and stare down your fears. It's internal housecleaning, an expulsion of all the emotions we bury underneath our vices. It's terrifying. This song is saying “No Thank You” to those distractions and doing the hard internal work.
LYRICS…
no thank you not today
can we try again tomorrow?
drink the pain to drown the sorrow until I swim
no thank you not today
you’re too far away to follow
too much truth for me to swallow on my way
ohhh, cheers to you
I’m glad you’re breaking through
ohhh, cheers to you
soon I’ll follow through
no thank you not today
i’ll be crawling through the corners
making friends with all the shadows in my mind
no thank you not today
I’ll be turning all the lights on
and I promise not to run from what I find
ohhh, cheers to you
I’m glad you’re breaking through
ohhh, cheers to you
soon I’ll follow through
soon I’ll follow through
am I breaking through?
am I breaking through?
