Seamlessly uniting the serene and the intense, London-based creative composer IUS explores the depth of the universe and our connections within it, through the spellbinding instrumental project We Are Stars.
As an introduction to this 2025 album, the composition Freedom is phenomenal – an intricate blending of neo-classical and electronic elements, providing a growing sense of cinematic drama and emotional conviction, across almost four minutes of musical expression.
Consuming the listener in its depth of sound but also carefully presenting essential moments of melody and recognisable inflection, Freedom grows from strength to strength as it plays, ultimately achieving a higher-note, higher-passion crescendo, and the mood changing quite distinctly, during the final third.
Capturing the essence of Freedom beautifully, this chapter of We Are Stars is both calming and euphoric somehow, a fine balancing of traits, which underline a producer with a fierce level of ability and understanding. You fall into the sound, somewhere between the traditional beauty of classical music, and the more evocative tempo and tumultuousness of iconic producers from the nineties (Clubbed To Death comes to mind).
From uncertain to hopeful, the journey inspires, and the album in full is incredibly eclectic – a fine calling card of an artist whose palette is overflowing with artistic options.
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