Del’Noire, the solo act of Matyascorvinus, isn’t handing you a neatly wrapped package of sounds with “Tyler Down.” Instead, it’s more like finding a worn map tucked inside a book you forgot you owned. This single, a purely instrumental affair, wrestles with the echoes of trauma. Not your kind of predictable musical trauma either. No cheesy lightning strikes. No predictable sad violin. Here it is a melancholic yet hopeful journey carved out on piano and electronic beats.
It hits you in unexpected places, like remembering a dream while riding a busy bus – something slightly off-kilter yet vividly real. We’re not getting lyrical confessions here. Instead, Matyascorvinus builds a story with notes and rhythms. He picks at melodies like an old scab, yet somehow manages to find something almost, well, bright, underneath. The story takes twists. Suddenly you think about art deco architecture with clean sharp lines, then quickly snaps into a danceable beat as if wanting to get up and go. Isn’t life like that sometimes, jarringly alternating between extremes? Maybe we’re all just clumsy dances between sharp corners and swirling skies.
“Tyler Down” is inspired by the 13 Reasons Why character, which is surprisingly not mentioned that directly, actually. Instead it’s implied, a feeling you get, not a story that’s spelled out. And there it hits. The raw vulnerability of a teenage tragedy is transmuted into sonic architecture with surprising hopefulness, a sort of defiant glow, a testament to getting up in the morning even after life has thrown its weight around. You almost imagine sunlight refracting on the surface of an industrial window.
The energy within this song almost feels like its own unique form of movement, a peculiar kind of dance. One that wouldn’t look out of place in an empty theatre or on the quietest streets you know. It makes you question how music can carry weight so profound yet never utter a word.
So, is it healing, is it dancing, is it contemplation? “Tyler Down,” in the hands of Del’Noire, exists in that fuzzy space in between, the in between places that make us humans. It is more of a reminder that even in the quietest moments of darkness, there is the chance for an unexpected sunrise, isn’t that the best we can ask for?
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