Aaryan Shah Releases New Single & Video “Interlinked”
Gaining momentum as an artist to watch, acclaimed Indian-American singer, songwriter, and genre-breaking artist Aaryan Shah returns with a vulnerable and introspective new single and music video entitled “Interlinked” available now via ADA.
“Interlinked” heralds the arrival of his highly anticipated fifth full-length album, Do You See The Birds, Too?, out March 21. Pre-order/Pre-save HERE. About the track, Aaryan shared, “‘Interlinked’ serves as a pivotal moment on my forthcoming album, for the first time acknowledging that the journey to stability isn’t linear, nor is it one of healing, posing the question — is the silence more deafening than the voices I used to hear?”
The single illuminates Aaryan’s sense of cinematic ambition. He notably culled the title from Blade Runner: 2049 where “Interlinked” acts as a baseline test to “ensure the protagonist wasn’t showing signs of experiencing emotions outside of his allocated range.” Via the song, Aaryan personally confronts the consequences of medicating his own long-undiagnosed bipolar disorder. As a result, he clouded and anesthetized his ability to grasp opposing extremes of emotion. Sonically, the track’s sparse synths complement ethereal and entrancing vocal transmissions accented by squeals of crows and seagulls—mixed to eerie perfection in Dolby Atmos.
“Interlinked” only hints at the scope of Do You See The Birds, Too? though. Approaching the album from the perspective of an auteur, he dives into the recesses of his psyche, wrestling with concepts of chaos, peace, unease, emptiness, and truth. Without holding back, he processes the rollercoaster of his mental health journey. Nodding to another big screen epic (Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer), the ideas of Fission and Fusion also anchor this deep and dynamic vision.
Ultimately, the album revolves around a core question, “If I’m the most stable I’ve ever been, but I can’t feel it, does it even matter?”
Photo Credit: Dimitris Tzoytzoyrakos