Video Premiere: Silver Y – Rest Home [Bytes]

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I float between darkness and flickering light, trapped in a space where time has lost its grip.

The voices of my loved ones drift in and out, familiar yet distant, like echoes from another life. I want to reach them, to tell them I’m still here, but instead, I sink deeper, carried by a force I cannot fight. Somewhere beyond this haze, I know the world is waiting — but for now, I am a ghost in my own skin, caught between dreaming and waking.

Bytes is proud to announce its first release of 2025 – the stunning debut album from Silver Y aka Laura Caviglia, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Sicily, Italy. The first single is the propulsive ‘Rest Home’, with Laura’s video premiering on Ransom Note today.

The album revolves around the theme of identity loss (Rest Home, Shadow, Self), explores the various stages of coma (Stupor, Sopor), and culminates in death (In the Depths). Yet, contrary to what that might suggest, it is a more spiritual than a dark album. The closing track, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, was conceived as a sort of prayer inspired by the Buddhist mantra of the same name. It was composed on a set-up primarily consisting of three analog synthesizers and a drum machine connected to a sequencer, plus a MIDI keyboard used to add Arturia Mellotron and Solina sounds.

Laura is a singular artist whose emotionally affecting compositions reveal a vulnerability and an ability to make songs that throb with an acutely sensual and psychedelic intensity. During the composition process, Laura listened to a lot of ambient-like music, such as Grouper, Biosphere, Ana Roxanne and the classic trip-hop shoegaze album Beat by Bowery Electric, as well as electronic projects like Rival Consoles and Kiasmos, and Italian electronic artists like Daniela Pes and Gold Mass.

In the Depths is released on April 25, 2025 and is available digitally and as a limited edition CD.

Pre-order here