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THE PEOPLE AROUND THE SONGS

unseen sea.

Different voices. Shared songs. The people who make the noise — and the people who give it a world to live in.

unseen sea is a creative collective: a place for songs to be written, rewritten, sung, produced and occasionally interrupted by somebody else's voice.

Across the projects, the same themes keep appearing in different forms: desire, devotion, ridiculous humour, underwater mythology, grief, and characters who are never quite as sure of themselves as they sound. The perspective may change from song to song; sometimes a single story has more than one narrator.

This is the wider world around the work — one where collaborators can be writers, producers, performers or all three, and where the borders between the projects aren't always perfectly neat.

THE NAMES IN THE CREDITS

the boys behind the scenes.

Five voices, several different versions of the story. The roles shift from song to song.

joshhhhhh
jstn L
nøiea
rhys wilde
damian michaels
BEHIND THE NOISE

the world doesn't build itself.

Not everyone has to sing to leave fingerprints on the songs. Some people make the images, catch what happens between takes, or send it all out into the world.

Illustration of Elliot Mercer with white hair and a reflective faceless mask, holding a rectangular art frame among little sea creatures

elliot mercer

ART DIRECTION · STYLING

Helping shape the visual world around the songs — from the atmosphere of a release to the details that make the whole thing feel connected.

Illustration of Nico Laurent with dark hair and a reflective faceless mask, holding a camera among little sea creatures

nico laurent

PHOTOGRAPHY · SOCIAL MEDIA

Finding the images and in-between moments, then helping the world outside the songs see them too.

Credits and roles may vary by release. The sea is not particularly good at job descriptions.