Bio

Shy Monster sprang into existence when Hayden Blades and Luis Paez discovered their shared love of psychedelic sound puzzles and aural skullduggery. Since then, this South Florida duo has been tinkering with the shapes of voltages and mishandling peculiar objects in order to capture their invisible vibrations. These guys love turning sound into story.

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Gravitation

Shy Monster's Gravitation translates the physics of connection into sound. Forged in the wake of a geographical separation between its members, the album parallels the fundamental force of its namesake, exploring how the sheer mass of a shared idea can bridge any distance. The compositions are intentionally disjointed, a collage of ideas communicated across a continental divide, yet they resolve into a strikingly unified narrative. It is an auditory exploration of creative endurance, a testament to the notion that the strongest bonds are not physical, but ideological, held together by an unwavering gravitational pull.

Liminal Spaceship

Shapes of Faces Vol.1 is the beginning of a series of volumes of songs written and performed by the Hayden half of Shy Monster while Luis puts on his mixing and mastering hat to pull everything together. This first volume concerns itself with the alien uneasiness of liminality, the disorienting effects of sustained nostalgia, and the entropy of shopping malls.

Coriolis

The band’s aim for a new series of albums is to provoke sonic estimations of unwavering physical forces that one experiences in this world. The pandemic was a big inspiration for the overarching themes of the series, a catalyst with which the band leveraged to evaluate their own situations and how to mitigate the unforeseeable. For Coriolis, they wanted to examine the benign force of the namesake to bring to mind the often mellifluous, sweeping patterns of nature, the nebulous heavens and the shifting seas. They are reaching for the sublime in order to approximate the ebb and flow of the powers outside of man’s grasp to become lost in the omniscience and eye-watering grandiosity of the numinous.

orE

Closing the tactual trilogy of albums, Ore leans on the experimental aspects of composition. At some points haunting and at others, aggressive, Ore borrows elements of industrial, and hip hop to create a genre bending album. Shy Monster’s aim was to take inspiration from the complexity of iridescent color schemes, strange interactions, and stilted movements. They set out to flip ideas of sound-making on their heads and turn their typical song structures inside-out.

Ether

Shy Monster’s fifth album is an ode to specters, open spaces and ephemeral moments. Having explored the process of decay, they felt the need to take a quieter moment to appreciate the complexities of the world around them, the stillness and grandiosity of architecture and landscapes. The concept of near intangible beauty played a large part in these compositions, as the band wanted to create pieces that built up into complex and fleeting moments that are just out of reach.

RUST

The goal for Rust was to use guitar driven textures and layers of gritty synths to recontextualize the idea of decay. The band wanted to explore the inevitability of the effect of entropy in all systems, from the conception of ideas to inanimate objects and follow that thread to their eventual collapse. Here, Shy Monster reveals a bit more of their darker inclinations in songwriting and sound design.

RED

In their third album and final piece of the analogous color trilogy, Red sees Shy Monster becoming more acquainted with pop structures, attempting to emulate hard candy with a viscous center.

Purple

Shy Monster's sophomore effort is a more anthemic album, leaning heavily on larger, softer compositions with less movement and more flowing texture.

BLUE  

Shy Monster's debut is a testament to this duo’s friendship. After only knowing each other for a short while the band effortlessly developed their sound. The album showcases dark synths, syncopated rhythms and unique structures.

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COMPOSER Credits

Shy Monster News

“Shy Monster scored my short film Malabar and I couldn’t be happier with the results. Luis and Hayden are a really talented duo, who understand the intricacies and dynamics of what makes a film work. On top of being total pros, they’re also really great guys, and a total pleasure to work with. I look forward to collaborating with Shy Monster on future projects.

Freddy Rodriguez - EMMY & PromaxBDA Award winning Director/Filmmaker

“Efficient, inventive and top grade sound quality. It isn’t a small task to give a film an identity through sound, but Shy Monster did it for us and I will be returning for future projects. Pleasantly surprised and extremely impressed.

Zac Lockard - Director

“This is my first time working with these guys and I must say in terms of professionalism and quality. These guys were very good. They brought a sound I was looking for and worked with me when it came to payment. Highly recommend these guys when it comes to music composing.

Johnathan Vargas - Director