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“Lift Him Up” by Astor Storm Makes Sadness Sound Like a Main Character Arc

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3 months ago

May 14, 2026

“Lift Him Up” feels like the soundtrack to someone finally exiting a long, emotionally confusing group chat called “family issues.” Astor Storm builds a world where industrial beats and cinematic synths don’t just support the emotion; they carry it, like emotional baggage with really good production design. It’s dramatic, but in a way that earns it.

The song’s power comes from how it refuses to stay still. Every section feels like it’s shifting slightly, like the ground is politely but persistently moving under your feet. You get the sense that Storm isn’t interested in neat resolutions, he’s more into the messy, honest kind of transformation where healing looks like questioning everything you thought you knew.

And then there’s the chorus, “Lift Him Up”, which somehow manages to be both heartbreaking and oddly victorious, like emotional judo. It doesn’t beg for closure; it builds its own. By the end, you’re not entirely sure if you’ve just listened to a sad song or a triumphant one, but you do know it made your feelings slightly more organized than they were three minutes ago.

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Host Bodies’ track ‘On A Roll’ Gets a Psychedelic Reinvention from Soul Glitch

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1 day ago

August 21, 2026

Joni Jones

Ten years after Host Bodies first released the album Daily Apparatus, “On A Roll” has found a completely new groove.

For the Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes project, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicholas Hasty, under his Soul Glitch moniker, takes the original electronic-rock track and pulls it into deeper, more psychedelic territory.

The remix keeps the energy of Host Bodies intact while opening up the track with new beats, electronic textures and expressive saxophone solos. Electric guitar, bass and layered production give it a rich, genre-blurring sound that sits somewhere between indie electronic, jazztronica, soultronica and alternative dance.

There’s something particularly satisfying about hearing a decade-old track treated not as a relic, but as raw material. Soul Glitch reshapes “On A Roll” , finding new spaces within the original and bringing his own musical language into the mix.

The result is energetic, sensual, psychedelic and unapologetically expansive.

Ten years on, “On A Roll” proves that sometimes the best way to celebrate where a song came from is to find somewhere completely new for it to go.