For the first time in his career, Holiday sings on his own recordings — less a reinvention than a part of his creative voice that hadn’t yet found the right project. Every aspect of the project was developed according to its own internal compass, free to become exactly what the music demanded.
This project has taken on a visual life of its own too, Topology occupies a space where psychedelic atmosphere, alternative music, progressive exploration and experimental pop intersect. How could Holiday not indulge his love of psychedelic imagery to match.Watch the video for new single “AUTONOMATIC” – HERE
Produced and Directed by Aaron Eisenberg (Sound + Vision Co.) and Scott Holiday “For this project the visual aesthetic is especially important to me. I want to evoke different feelings in the listener and viewer, and it’s so much more effective when there’s both elements (audio and visual) present. So every song on this album will have some degree of visual element to it. Colors and textures..people and places that evoke deeper feelings in us. Feelings that rest in the back of our minds and hearts through our ears and eyes.” Catch up with the video for the first single “VERIDREAM” – HERE For more than three decades, Scott Holiday has built a career by following instinct. Before there was an album concept, or even the idea of a solo project, he started a new daily habit: wake up, get in the studio, pick up a guitar, with one rule — write something. Not a finished song, sometimes just a 45 second idea. Just a fragment, then set aside and picked up again the next day. The goal wasn’t productivity, it was momentum. As the collection of sketches grew, Holiday noticed they weren’t isolated ideas — they shared a language, leaning into atmosphere, psychedelic experimentation, different textures and rhythms than he previously had worked with. The material felt personal enough that it resisted broad collaboration and asked to develop on its own terms. Those early sketches were built around improvised drum recordings from longtime collaborator and Rival Sons drummer Michael Miley, sent from his home studio. Holiday treated them as raw material rather than finished tracks, cutting and reshaping the performances into the rhythmic foundation of each song. Amid textural, fuzz-soaked, cinematic guitars, Topology is equally defined by lush vintage synthesizers and deeply pocketed drum grooves that anchor constantly shifting arrangements. There are echoes of the adventurous spirit of ’70s progressive music, but the record feels equally informed by modern alternative production and a willingness to let mood, texture and movement take precedence over convention. By the time five compositions had taken shape, Holiday realized he wasn’t writing toward another Rival Sons record — he was starting a new artistic identity: HOL1D4Y. | 
