‘In This Light’ — the focus track from Isaac Winemiller’s new double single Solar Eclipse, out 22nd May — took two years to complete. Not because the writing stalled, but because it couldn’t end until the relationship that inspired it did. The song grew and changed in real time alongside the breakup and the reconciliation and the breakup again, until one day Winemiller was finally on the other side of it, and the track was done.
“In many ways, it felt impossible to truly finish the song until I had finally moved on emotionally,” he reflects. “Completing it became more than just finishing a track; it became part of the healing process itself.”
It’s a quietly radical approach to songwriting — letting the material stay open, refusing to resolve what hasn’t resolved yet. The result is a track that carries the full weight of that timeline: the disorienting beauty of a relationship that once felt illuminating, and the slow, hard work of reclaiming the self-trust it gradually obscured.
What makes Solar Eclipse so compelling is the gap between what it’s about and what it sounds like. ‘In This Light’ is sensual, groove-driven, and built to move — shimmering synthesisers, the warm electric pulse of a Rhodes and Wurlitzer, production that sits somewhere between bedroom intimacy and dance-floor release. Winemiller draws comparisons to Vansire, Parcels, and Yot Club — artists who’ve mastered the specific alchemy of heartbreak that feels irresistibly good to listen to. He wrote, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered the track himself from his home studio in Bozeman, Montana, playing every instrument bar the lead guitar. The craft is meticulous. The feeling is anything but controlled.
Winemiller is not an emerging name in any tentative sense. His 2021 debut Levels of Removal accumulated tens of millions of cumulative Spotify streams, earned an editorial Fresh Finds placement, and drew coverage from Obscure Sound, Indie-Shuffle, and Kidwithavinyl. As bassist and saxophonist for Vansire — a band whose catalogue has surpassed 1.1 billion Spotify streams — he has toured across the US, Japan, Singapore, and China, with a full North American tour planned for autumn 2026. He arrives at Solar Eclipse not as someone finding his footing, but as someone who knows exactly where he stands.
Which makes the vulnerability of ‘In This Light’ all the more striking. This is a track that could have been smoothed into something easier, something that kept its feelings at arm’s length. Instead it stands, as Winemiller puts it, as “a testament to resilience, self-reflection, and the confidence it takes to let go and move forward.” In the end, finishing the song and finishing the relationship were the same act. You can hear it in every note.
Solar Eclipse is out now. A music video for ‘In This Light’ is in development.
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