'Fade Out' by VAYNE & Ashkan Kagan Mourns Love in the Digital Age
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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