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Zachary Mason Releases New Single”Sweetheart”

Published

3 months ago

May 19, 2026

Sweetheart is a powerful rock track with sounds of the 80’s and a romantic, easily relatable theme. The song focuses on the idea of a sweetheart, and the wonderful feelings and stories love can bring about. In the song, Zachary appears to be singing directly to the listener and appealing to their own thoughts and memories on such an emotive subject… Zachary recorded this song in his home studio in October 2025, and later got in touch with Drummer Nate Barnes and Bassist John Thomasson to get them involved in the project. Nate Barnes is a member of the critically acclaimed rock band Rose Hill Drive, and John Thomasson currently plays with Little Big Town, and has played on several platinum albums and singles, as well as Grammy and Emmy winning songs. Zachary also worked with Derrick Lin, an excellent Hong-Kong based Mix and Master engineer. Sweetheart is Zachary’s eleventh single to date, and his eighteenth song to be released.

Zachary is a 28-year-old artist based in Guildford, UK. Since the spring of 2021, Zachary has created between 200 and 250 demo tracks on a recording kit gifted to him by a relative. He creates music in different genres, using acoustic and electric guitars, and also keyboards. His music has been featured by names such as Rolling Stone En Español, TJPL News, 1111CR3W, The Big Takeover, M.E.I. News, and many others. An interview with Zachary was also published in 2025 in SPIN Magazine. His single I’ll Get Through charted at No. 41 and No. 93 on the indie radio charts in 2024. Some of his songs were accepted into the catalogue of sync companies such as YTINIFNI Pictures (a prestigious Film and TV company)
and Brazilian Film and TV Company Relva Music. In 2025, Zachary was featured by some prominent promoters on Instagram, and saw his work receiving praise from some prestigious individuals in the world of music, TV and media. His favourite artists include Neil Young, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen. Zachary also writes under his real name, Daniel Macintyre, and publishes some of his work on the website Scribbles (scribblings.uk) and also Medium.

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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.