dye — aka Los Angeles artist Daniel Ye — shares their latest single “feeL,”  an attempt to turn back time and be kinder to himself.  Listen to “feeL” here.

“feeL” is a wistful shoegaze power ballad capable of conjuring the listener’s most contentious, deeply embedded emotions. With the chromatic falling-down of the melody on the chorus, Daniel Ye is pulling you down into the darkest place in him. With the chugging, washed power chords, he simultaneously drags you back up to the light, where the benefit of hindsight is on your side.

dye’s wispered vocals have a dynamic range that travels from an Elliott Smith whisper to The Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser’s impressionistic, painterly style. Set above moody goth pop sonic flourishes, explosive guitars reminiscent of Linkin Park or Deftones keep the intensity at the max.

Of “feeL,” dye says: “‘feeL’ is about what could have been. This isn’t limited to just a relationship, but literally anything in life that had promise but never came to fruition. I was personally dealing with this feeling of missing out on my childhood while I was writing this one. It’s hard to put to words this deep visceral feeling of lost time, so I found it easier to put in place an idea of someone to represent those emotions. I’m almost speaking to my younger self, especially in the second verse: “And you never seem to change, only time could rearrange, wish I could take it all away, you got me thinking, if I could remind you, I would.” I was so deathly afraid of life as a teen I completely isolated myself from the rest of the world. I wish I could go back in time and tell that kid to not be so hard on himself. That’s the beautiful thing about music tho. It could mean one thing so deeply to one person but something entirely different to someone else, and that’s the kind of song ‘feeL’ is.”

For Ye, a self-described shy kid from LA who picked up a guitar as a 13-year-old after hearing a long-gone Kurt Cobain on the radio, a dye song is more than the just sum of its parts — it’s a window into who he really, truly is…at last. As he did on previous singles  “supernAtural” and “dirt,” we find dye honing in on a signature sonic landscape, tying together the grunge tones of Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails, the literate angst and melodic introspection of Elliot Smith or John Lennon, and a dash of dark orchestral maneuvers reminiscent of My Chemical Romance or Smashing Pumpkins. These elements are then cast against impressionistic swirls of sound and imbued with a blistering angst.

It’s a heady combination: dye’s unmistakable sound has already won fans at BBC Radio1 (Rock Show w/ Daniel Carter), Australian radio station Triple j, and loads of editorial love at Spotify and Apple. As the young songwriter continues building out the world of dye, listeners are sure to discover rich new veins of emotion.