A poignant self-awareness informs the title track to Loic Moonmattress’s new EP Last Nostalgia (December 18, 2025). In the song the artist looks back on a chapter in his life he recognizes has come to an end in a way that prompted some moments of self-examination with a sense of how that period like many distinct periods in our existence isn’t the beginning or the end but part of a hopefully long life story which helped to shape us for the better and the struggles that in retrospect were sometimes self-imposed by our attitudes in the complexity that is lived experience. The lyrics are like the impressionistic thoughts read in cadence over harmonic drones that resonate with the clarity of a waking dream while minimal keyboards keep the cadence and later on lightly distorted guitar lends the often borderline ethereal track a tactile immediacy that brings string of reflections back to the present tense and the world of this moment. The song blurs the line between experimental hip-hop, ambient and dream pop in a unique way that is welcome when a lot of music is trying to be in an established style but Loic Moonmattress has never really settled for being in some pocket seeming to prefer to chart a different and consistently fascinating musical path. Watch the video for “Last Nostalgia” on YouTube and follow the Edmonton-based artist at the links below.
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