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Premiere: Excellent World Shares New Single “Merciless” | Beneath the Radar


Premiere: Excellent World Shares New Single “Merciless”

Self-titled Debut LP Out on August twelfth

Jul 29, 2025



Images by Allison DeMoss

Over time, LA-based indie musician and filmmaker Nathan Castiel has directed music movies for loads of rising stars within the indie scene, working with artists like Mannequin/Actriz, Surf Curse, Remi Wolf, Wild Nothing, and Hatchie. Nonetheless, he has additionally been branching out on his personal, making shape-shifting indie rock below the moniker Excellent World.

As Excellent World, Castiel carves his personal place amongst his DIY friends, writing, performing, and producing his music himself. The ensuing music is equally singular, enjoying with retro drum machine breakbeats, charming chiptune synth tones, fuzzy layers of guitar, and baroque pop strings. Castiel debuted below the moniker in 2019 along with his first EP, Merciless, and has adopted over the previous few years with a handful of latest singles, most just lately with final 12 months’s “Pillar of Salt” and “Prepper Who Was Proper,” and his newest monitor, “Trembling.”

Castiel is again with one other new single forward of the discharge of his forthcoming self-titled debut album, Excellent World, out on August twelfth. At present, he’s sharing “Merciless,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.

“Merciless” begins on a misty classic pop soundscape, steeped in reverb, programmed drums, and simmering artificial instrumentation. It captures the ‘90s as recalled via the kaleidoscope of an echoing digital age, finally constructing to a quick—however poignant and dramatic—finale. Simply as Castiel’s instrumentation feels pulled from the glossy and synthesized facet of yesteryear’s pop, his lyrics evoke a sinister spin on nostalgia for the early days of the digital age: “The CRT glow / The beginning-up chime / Oh I bear in mind when / The CD-ROM twirls / I’m in management / Even when it’s faux / I drown my Sims / Out within the pool once more / How’d I get so merciless?”

Castiel explains, “‘Merciless’ is about getting older on this unsure dystopian digital age whereas reckoning with a few of your darker, extra anti-social qualities. It’s a reverb-drenched sluggish burn impressed by Animals-era Pink Floyd, company maintain music, and naturally David Sensible’s Aquatic Atmosphere for Donkey Kong Nation.”

Take a look at the track under. Excellent World is due out all over the place on August twelfth.

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