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Collin Keller Shines In New Single ‘404 error’
Collin Keller’s new single “404 error” is a wistful indie rock track colored by soft pop influences. In the song, Keller reflects on the experience of growing up alongside someone and eventually losing that connection. The title references the familiar Internet “404 page not found” message, using it as a metaphor for the emptiness that can surface when remembering relationships that once felt permanent. Through this clever blend of digital imagery and emotional storytelling, the track explores the lingering impact of lost love.
Raised in Vail, Colorado and now living in Los Angeles, Keller has spent years building a multifaceted career in music. He has fronted the project luhx., served as guitarist for Dutch Melrose, and performed in productions including The Life and Music of George Michael, Dirty Dancing in Concert, and The Simon & Garfunkel Story. His festival appearances include Osheaga and Switchyard Music Festival. Influenced by indie artists like mk.gee, The Lone Bellow, and John Mayer, Keller continues to refine his sound with “404 error.” The single stands as a fully self-sufficient project, with Keller handling the writing, performance, production, and mixing himself.
The musical arrangement of “404 error” is anchored by a warm acoustic guitar figure that carries the song through its restrained verses. As the track progresses, airy synthesizers and electric guitar layers broaden the sonic landscape during the choruses, giving the music a more expansive feel. A gentle trumpet line later adds color and detail to the arrangement. While the overall tone feels breezy and sunlit, the song’s steady progression builds emotional weight as it moves forward.
The song’s lyrics merge technological language with reflections on love’s lasting influence. The chorus line, “Maybe you’re holding, like I’m holding you with me on the daily / Your impact carries on,” highlights the idea that even after a relationship ends, its emotional imprint continues. Keller also nods to La La Land with the lyric, “And I’m hoping that the day our eyes remeet, that we can smile like Mia and Sebastian.” This line captures the bittersweet hope that two people might cross paths again and recognize the value of what they once shared. Keller’s thoughtful writing weaves these ideas together, forming a cohesive and tender meditation on memory and change.
Ultimately, “404 error” showcases Keller’s distinctive creative voice. The song’s layered instrumentation, heartfelt lyrics, and understated production combine to form a compelling and relatable listening experience. Despite borrowing the imagery of a cold digital error message, the track itself is rich with emotion and warmth. As it gradually unfolds, Keller’s sincerity and artistry shine through, transforming a story of loss into something quietly uplifting.
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Michele Ducci has unveiled the second single, ‘Woman Like You’, from his forthcoming album and animated film ‘Snail in the Clouds’.
‘Woman Like You’ pairs bright distorted electric guitar with an electronic drumbeat, adding in Ducci’s soulful vocals and a catchy uplifting chorus with Letizia Mandoleisi’s sweet vocal harmonies. A vintage organ pedalboard operated by Ducci simultaneously generates chords, bass and rhythm, like a one-man band. Shane Kennedy (Girl in the Year Above) joins in on guitar. Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) recorded and produced the track at his 4am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Mandoleisi, delves further into the realm of planet ‘Snail’:
Says Ducci, “The ark of melodies, after various attempts, finally starts to work and fly in the planet Snail, while the shady Doc. Sub. and Agostos, with their platoon of soldiers made of foggy smoke, spy the miracle, planning to steal the ark for their evil and tyrannical purposes.”
About the track, Michele says, “I wrote this song for my love Letizia. Love seen from the mind is the sound we make. Sound is the love of matter.
We used a Technics synthesizer organ from a flea market. I tried to find a mood that was right for the song and I started using the bass of the pedal board together with the synth and the drums, and it was magical to hear the song reveal itself all coming from a single instrument. Leti was singing with me and we recorded everything live in one shot. Then we made Shane do the guitar flight, as if he came out of the window. The idea was to maintain disproportions, guitar thrust and synth drum thinness a la Haroumi Hosono, so as to create an estrangement, but naturally: it’s about how I listen, with close up something that captures me in its nuance as element of a larger orchestra somewhere. I’m glad we decided in the studio with Simon to use the layers of arrangement as the close-ups in the cinema; they look like strange enlargements that perch on parts of a mutated orchestra. I’m happy to come back with this love song at a time when everything seems to opt, even my labor in managing the flows of selfishness that have poured out on me while doing this album, for the sound of war. I’m here happy to be able to say that the sound of love always wins as did for me. Snail in the clouds is one of the most important works in my life and I am glad to start from pure love for this album that is my son.”
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.
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