ALTERNATIVE POST-PUNK ARTIST THXSOMCH KEEPS MEMORIES ALIVE ON ‘SOUND OF YOU LAUGHING’
FEATURING FLAWED MANGOES
PRODUCED BY GRAYSKIES (D4VD, WISP)
MIXED BY MIKE CROSSEY (ARCTIC MONKEYS, THE 1975)
Toronto, Canada-based post-punk/alt-rock artist ThxSoMch sinks into nostalgia on the unrelenting, equally hard and soft ‘Sound of You Laughing’ and captures the wistful longing of flipping through old photos in its matching music video.
The latest commanding track took shape after musician Flawed Mangoes sent the artist various instrumentals, whose evocative guitar riff became the song’s foundation. After playing around with them and sending them to collaborator LMG for drum additions, ThxSoMch was so inspired, he freestyled nearly the whole song in one go. The artist shares, “I recorded it the next day and couldn’t stop listening to it. It sat on my computer for a while until I revisited it with grayskies while making more music. ‘Sound of You Laughing’ is both comfort and discomfort.” Defiant and uninhibited, each line is delivered with the slight twinge of pain that comes with digging up the past.
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The matching heartfelt video was created backwards, built around looking at old photographs and embodies the undeniably captivating guitar riff. On the video, director Tommy Kiljoy recalls, “The whole goal was to nail that super specific feeling: that liminal nostalgia you get from seeing old playground photos. We really wanted to bottle that up in the visual. We played around with all these exterior lights to match that sound. I’m genuinely so in love with how this video turned out; it just perfectly clicks with the song’s energy.”
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ThxSoMch burst onto the scene in 2022 with viral hit ‘SPIT IN MY FACE!’ which has garnered 672M+ streams on Spotify and charted on the UK Official Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100. Since then, after touring the U.S. and Europe, the artist has only continued to elevate, evolve and expand his artistry and fast-growing, fervent global fan base, boasting over 413K followers on TikTok. Now, with over 1B career streams and three tracks with over 100M, he unrelentingly disrupts the post-punk, alt-rock space as he paves his own lane–unapologetically staying true to himself and his artistry like never before and prepares to reach new heights.
With a delicate toughness, ‘Sound of You Laughing’, sees ThxSoMch aim to keep his best memories alive. Don’t miss more from the rising artist–connect via Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
Photo credit: Jimmy Fontaine
Photo credit: Jimmy Fontaine
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