'Fade Out' by VAYNE & Ashkan Kagan Mourns Love in the Digital Age
The album charts a surreal journey through grief, where every track becomes a chapter of the heartbreak journey.
May 08, 2025
Iranian artist Ashkan Kagan and VAYNE deliver 'Fade Out', an album and short film that plays like an emotional post-mortem of love lost. The short film, now available on YouTube, charts a surreal journey through grief, where every track becomes a chapter of the heartbreak journey.
Opening with 'Window', the album eases in with tender indie vocals before 'Train Station' jolts the listener into a Stranger Things-style synthscape with robotic distortion. 'Take Me Back' and 'Lie' crawl with melancholy, while 'Leave Me Alone' and 'Love Me Again' deepen the album's heavy-hearted tone.
Directed by VAYNE, with graphic design by MIJEX and 3D art by VAYNE himself, 'Fade Out' is as visually dense as it is sonically raw. It's a post-breakup fever dream, glitching between memory and forgetting—grief rendered in pixels and pain.
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