Out December 5th via Top Floor Music

In a world that feels louder than ever, Southpaw Pawprint offer a gentle exhale. The multimedia art project’s debut EP, ‘Cosy’, arriving December 5th via Top Floor Music, is a lush, psychoacoustic exploration of calm — a warm analogue refuge from digital overwhelm.

Across four immersive tracks, ‘Cosy’ takes listeners through the stages of sleep, blending psychoacoustic science and human emotion to create a truly enveloping experience. Each piece drifts deeper into stillness, using carefully crafted noise, gradually slowing BPMs, binaural rhythms, ASMR textures, and field recordings — from the roar of Yosemite Falls to the soft snore of a contented dog.

The result is a sonic balm — intimate, tactile, and deeply human. Eschewing modern digital gloss, Southpaw Pawprint draw from vintage synths, classic electric pianos, and real guitars to build a sound world that feels both nostalgic and restorative.

Visually, the project unfolds in a handcrafted 16-bit universe, a playful pixel world inspired by classic video games that mirrors the EP’s themes of comfort, reflection, and emotional restoration.

The mind behind Southpaw Pawprint is Pete Briley, a musician whose 2025 has been nothing short of frenetic.

“I ran the Tokyo Marathon, flew straight to SXSW to play pedal steel with Toria Richings, then straight into a UK tour with The Outlaw Orchestra and into a busy festival season across the UK and into Europe,” Briley recalls. “When a family medical emergency forced me to stop and fly to Australia last minute, I hit a wall. I came home anxious and exhausted — I couldn’t switch off.

I started writing Southpaw’s music as therapy, revisiting my old psychoacoustics notes from university to find ways to help my brain unwind. When it worked, I thought maybe it could help someone else too.”

Equal parts art installation, sound experiment, and act of kindness, Southpaw Pawprint invite listeners to slow down, breathe, and get a little cosy.

‘Cosy’ is out December 5th on all platforms via Top Floor Music.

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