You’ve probably never heard of Seyu. And that in itself is a microcosm of everything that’s wrong with this world. Perhaps the world just isn’t ready for her. After all, it’s definitely true that we don’t deserve her auditory aesthetic. But if all of us were to truly embrace art for what it is – a motor for change and progress spurred by where we’ve been and no longer wish to be – Seyu would be nothing if not the most inventive. Her 2018 project, lll was a starkly anti-establishmentarian take on music that knew almost no foundation of anything made before it. And her new project, R love is another boundless masterpiece.

 

Written, produced, performed, mixed, and mastered by Seyu herself, the project is a winding, floaty road through each of our most unexplored, forgotten inner mind mazes. Built on a pillar of ambient butter, the entire project feels more like a personal, fluid symphony than it does a SoundCloud EP. And if that alone doesn’t display the state of music’s modern endlessness, maybe the fact that at this point her genius attracts less than 200 followers does. 

 

But the fact remains that she deserves more. No one in music is making anything like she is, and though that alone isn’t necessarily a good thing, her music definitely is. Influences from ambient electronica, R&B, and hip-hop have certainly carved out their corner of R Love. Birds Starry Nights is an emotionally implosive ballad exhibiting not only her experimental composition, but also her crystalline vocal delivery. OHIO is a quiet albeit starkly bold hip-hop track that supersedes in writing what just about any rapper today is capable of. With Me is a transcendent, introspective ambient take that belongs in a Decoded Magazine radio set. And somehow, with the inclusion of the other four tracks which find their places in the indefinable grey area between it all, R Love never loses direction. Instead, it unearths its listener’s. 

 

And that is a revelation.