{"id":16633,"date":"2025-10-18T07:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16633"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:36:42","slug":"unhappily-ever-now-drops-the-deeply-personal-new-single-to-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16633","title":{"rendered":"UNHAPPILY EVER NOW Drops The Deeply Personal New Single, &#8220;To The Light&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UNHAPPILY-EVER-NOW-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16634\" style=\"width:548px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UNHAPPILY-EVER-NOW-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UNHAPPILY-EVER-NOW-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UNHAPPILY-EVER-NOW-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UNHAPPILY-EVER-NOW-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/UNHAPPILY-EVER-NOW.jpg 1926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>UNHAPPILY EVER NOW<\/strong>&nbsp;returns with one of its most moving releases to date \u2014 \u201cTo The Light&#8221;; a deeply personal alt\/art-rock single.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Written as a tribute to his cat by songwriter, Stephen Watson, the song captures the bittersweet beauty of unconditional love and the ache of time passing too quickly. Its textured guitars, spacious production, and vulnerable vocal performance create a cinematic soundscape that invites listeners to feel rather than simply hear.<br><br>\u201cHe\u2019s been with me through everything,\u201d Stephen shares. \u201cHis presence gave me strength when I didn\u2019t have any. This song isn\u2019t a goodbye \u2014 it\u2019s a promise that his love will always live in me.\u201d<br><br>Blending influences from Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, \u201cTo The Light\u201d balances raw emotion with atmospheric artistry. It\u2019s a song for anyone who\u2019s ever loved \u2014 and been saved by \u2014 a soul that made life worth living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><br>\u201cTo The Light\u201d is available on all major digital outlets including Bandcamp and Spotify NOW!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Buy\/Stream &#8220;To The Light&#8221;:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/li.sten.to\/to-the-light\">https:\/\/li.sten.to\/to-the-light<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Follow UNHAPPILY EVER NOW:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UnhappilyEverNow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UnhappilyEverNow<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unhappilyevernow\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unhappilyevernow\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"To The Light\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCHEvGvk9hI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UNHAPPILY EVER NOW<\/strong>&nbsp;consists of Stephen Watson &#8211; lead performer and songwriter of&nbsp;Cleopatra Records&#8217; recording artist, Green Jelly, and vocalist, Maria V.&nbsp;The band is the sonic embodiment of a world lost in time. The band&nbsp;merges emotional storytelling with cinematic intensity along with the haunting vocals and lyrical depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing from influences like TOOL, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle, and Stabbing Westward,&nbsp;<strong>UNHAPPILY EVER NOW<\/strong>&nbsp;constructs songs like time-worn ruins\u2014beautiful, broken, and impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by the dark, time-bending world of the science-fiction show,<em>12 Monkeys<\/em>, their songs speak to the ache of disconnection: the lives we\u2019ve left behind, and the struggle of trying to exist in a present that no longer feels like it belongs to us. It&#8217;s grief without closure. &nbsp;Time without direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UNHAPPILY EVER NOW<\/strong>&nbsp;doesn\u2019t offer answers. It holds up a mirror to what we&#8217;ve become\u2014and asks if we can bear to look. Maybe that\u2019s what we need most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNHAPPILY EVER NOW&nbsp;returns with one of its most moving releases to date \u2014 \u201cTo The Light&#8221;; a deeply personal alt\/art-rock single. Written as a tribute to his cat by songwriter, Stephen Watson, the song captures the bittersweet beauty of unconditional love and the ache of time passing too quickly. Its textured guitars, spacious production, and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16633\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UNHAPPILY EVER NOW Drops The Deeply Personal New Single, &#8220;To The Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16635,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions\/16635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}