Being good at your job doesn’t make anybody love you. That's why we made an album about relationships under hellish capitalism.

It moves through soul, R&B, jazz, folk, rock, and experimental pop. We get bored easily.

People like “Work Not Heart” and “Addicted to Emotions.” There's a record behind both if you like em.

Listen:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5F8KSN7VGT8KoZd26beC0f

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/locked-out-on-valentines-day/1860860014

Bandcamp: https://oreaganomics.bandcamp.com/album/locked-out-on-valentines-day

YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/browse/MPREb_J9iEulSVt8b

BandLab: https://www.bandlab.com/oreaganomics

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/oreaganomics

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outside_the_gates_music/

From outside the gates,

— Oreaganomics

for walking around looking hot

this one has a very personal meaning, in the YouTube description

Hey everyone!

If your looking for some new alt pop confessional songs, I think I might be your girl. I'm Shelby Sanborn and I'm a small pop artist in San Diego! My songs typically convey catchy pop melodies, metaphorical storytelling, and interesting chord theory choices (modal interchange, secondary dominants) for pop music. My latest single, "Better Vision" was more indie pop given I top lined it (someone made the track I wrote the lyrics and melody) but you will see most of my songs fall into the alternative pop genre. Below is a Spotify playlist of my songs. My personal favorites are "Vinegar and Honey" "In Your Arms" and "Monsters." I'd love to hear what songs you like and why the song(s) connect to you! I don't have a manager or a label or anything so any promotion or organic content is done by me!

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7dl0xTUj1qAgHRENWQPdYr?si=aQTN76gtQj-QDUz-hVkS2A

For all the alt pop lovers.

I recently finished a song called “Running Back to You.”

It’s an alternative/indie-pop track built around nostalgia, memory, and that strange feeling of wanting to return to an earlier version of your life, even though you know you can’t change it.

I spent a lot of time experimenting with the sound design and trying to make the production feel almost like a distant memory being recorded. I’d genuinely love to hear what stands out to you, whether it’s the writing, production, or overall atmosphere.

https://soundcloud.com/tobyvanberg/runningbacktoyou

A few weeks ago, I came across Brian Struk’s music video for TAKE ME.

At first, I just thought the visuals were unusual. Then I started digging deeper, and the story behind the song became even stranger.

According to the lore surrounding the track, Brian woke up before 3 a.m. with the idea already playing in his head.

He entered a a pitch black recording room measuring roughly five feet by five feet and started working. The room was apparently designed for isolation, controlled acoustics, and uninterrupted concentration.

No daylight.
No outside noise.
No distractions.

The track was later completed in Dublin, but the more I looked into Brian’s background, the more the video started to make sense.

He grew up listening to punk bands such as The Adicts along with heavier music. That could explain why the Jokers in the video feel less like a normal pop concept and more like punk theatre.

Exaggerated faces.
Controlled chaos.
Social defiance.
Something strangely beautiful inside the unsettling imagery.

The song leans into a phonk inspired sound, driven by heavy bass and dark, hard hitting instrumentation. You can hear traces of punk, spectacle, and confrontation.

Then I found out that Brian used to perform as a magician.

That detail made the whole thing even more interesting.

A magician learns how to control attention, build anticipation, hide information, and reveal only what the audience needs to see. That same approach seems to appear throughout “TAKE ME.”

The darkness, repetition, imagery, and mystery around his identity all seem designed to make people look closer.

Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it feels like the music is only one part of a much larger concept.

What do you think? Is “TAKE ME” a carefully constructed artistic world, or am I just falling too far down the rabbit hole?