S16, 2020

PRODUCTION and composition

In his much-anticipated album S16, Woodkid questioned the notion of scale, from infinitely large to infinitely small, the balance of forces between human and industrial, and the idea of collective and individual responsibility for creating a world on the verge of breakdown. S16 was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, and other locales including Berlin, Paris, Los Angeles and Iceland and features production and original composition work from Ryan. Of the lead single “Goliath,” TIME writes it is “a song on an epic scale, with crackling percussion and heartbeat bass underlying his reaching vocals… the music’s compulsion is to buoy us to victory against the odds.”