About

I want to be upfront about how this music gets made: I make it with the help of AI tools. The music is composed with Suno, the artwork with ChatGPT, and the videos and even this website are built with Claude Code and custom tools it helped me write. I don't hide any of that, and I never will — you deserve to know what you're listening to.

The lyrics, though, I write. Not push-a-button-and-keep-what-drops-out — I mean I sit with every song and hone it: rewriting lines until they say the true thing, chasing a rhyme that won't quite land, cutting a word that trips the tongue when it's sung, talking myself out of an image that sounds pretty but doesn't actually make sense. A single song can go through dozens of passes before it feels right. AI helps me draft and move faster, but the words — and every call about what stays — are mine.

But here's the part that matters to me: the heart is real. Every artist, every story, every lyric started as something I actually felt, wanted to say, or just thought would be funny — to me. The tools help me get it out of my head and into the world, but the intent — the message, the care, and even the lulz, the reason a song exists — is mine. I make songs that I want to listen to myself, and I do, constantly.

I know a lot of people have complicated feelings about AI and art. I do too. I don't think a tool makes something meaningless, any more than a synthesizer or a drum machine did. What makes a song matter is whether it means something to the person who made it and the person who hears it. I'm one person, making things I couldn't have made any other way, and sharing them honestly.

Some of these songs — especially the Softsteel ones — were written for people who are struggling, to say you're enough exactly as you are. If even one of them reaches someone who needed it, then all of this was worth it.

Thanks for being here. Take the music for what it is: made with new tools, but with an old-fashioned, entirely human reason behind it.

— Relen