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Crywolf Shares Dramatic Single "Wake [E-Bow]" Off Forthcoming Debut Album

Inspired by a daring cross-country motorcycle trip—the artist's second album single is chilling AF.

Producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Crywolf, real name Justin Taylor Philips, is the sort of jack of all trades who makes larger than life tracks that are hard to fully experience in one listen. Like "Wake [E-Bow]," the second single off the artist's forthcoming debut LP

Cataclasm

(out this November on Okami Records), many of his tracks experience powerful swells of sound that eventually unfold into more ethereal, intricate valleys, offering the listener the sort of 360 experience that makes you feel something real.

Ahead of his upcoming LP, Philips has shared a full stream of his latest single, which he tells us was inspired by Radical Face's 2007 track "Wrapped in Piano Strings," which he would listen to while speeding across the country on a 3 month motorcycle trip he embarked on shortly after dropping out of school at the age of 19.

Phillips also shares some more explanation to why the track is so meaningful to him: "The feeling it gave me was one of the most beautiful I have ever felt. It was like a religious experience. It brought me close to tears a few times. For the first time, I saw the world as profoundly beautiful. This song is inspired by that feeling… Escaping the familiar, venturing into the unknown," he says.

Try it on for size below, and if you're going to embark on your own life-changing motorcycle journey—please wear a helmet.


Producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Crywolf, real name Justin Taylor Philips, is the sort of jack of all trades who makes larger than life tracks that are hard to fully experience in one listen. Like "Wake [E-Bow]," the second single off the artist's forthcoming debut LP

Cataclasm

(out this November on Okami Records), many of his tracks experience powerful swells of sound that eventually unfold into more ethereal, intricate valleys, offering the listener the sort of 360 experience that makes you feel something real.


Ahead of his upcoming LP, Philips has shared a full stream of his latest single, which he tells us was inspired by Radical Face's 2007 track "Wrapped in Piano Strings," which he would listen to while speeding across the country on a 3 month motorcycle trip he embarked on shortly after dropping out of school at the age of 19.

Phillips also shares some more explanation to why the track is so meaningful to him: "The feeling it gave me was one of the most beautiful I have ever felt. It was like a religious experience. It brought me close to tears a few times. For the first time, I saw the world as profoundly beautiful. This song is inspired by that feeling... Escaping the familiar, venturing into the unknown," he says.

Try it on for size below, and if you're going to embark on your own life-changing motorcycle journey—please wear a helmet.