Sonnenzimmer (Nick Butcher, Nadine Nakanishi) has teamed up with Coupler (Ryan Norris) on a new project called "Cat Pose".

The two track project clocks in at just over 25 minutes and began as an explorations of audio loops.

Coupler has released a new EP called "The City is a Lie We Tell Ourselves". This is a direct follow-up to the December 2020 EP, "The Forgotten Openness of the Closed World". Coupler is primarily the work of Ryan Norris but he is joined by Rollum Haas, Michael Hilger, and more for this project.

According to Norris, "The City Is a Lie We Tell Ourselves is an interrogation of the concept of place, specifically in these times. What does it mean to call any particular pin on the map “home” at this moment, when we are connected more by wires and electricity than any common civic purpose? Every place has become a non-place, each apartment simultaneously part hotel room, part office, part cafe. The city bares its veins only on trips for essentials or walks through ice."

Coupler has released a new EP via Nashville's YK Records called "The Forgotten Openness of the Closed World". This primarily the ambient journey of Ryan Norris, but he is joined by Michael Hilger on pedal steel and Matt Glassmeyer on tenor saxophone and buzzaphone. The EP explores time and it interacts with and distorts our inner world.

This is Coupler's second EP of 2020, follow-up September's "The Rhythm Method", which featured the opening banger "The Technocrat".

Coupler recently released a stop motion video for their single “Invention 2 - Pattern Recognition”. The song is taken from their forthcoming LP Gifts From The Ebb Tide which will be released via yk Records on November 17th.

You can catch Coupler on October 2nd at Subterranean with Sunseeker and Thompson Springs.