In an age where reality shifts shape by the hour, the mind grows weary trying to grasp what cannot be held. Truth feels slippery, like a headline rewritten mid-thought. Change arrives uninvited, relentless, wearing the mask of progress. Anxiety festers in the cracks—fed by noise, by screens, by the incessant drumbeat of catastrophe posing as information. To escape, one turns to distraction, but the relief is thin, fleeting. Beneath it lies a deeper ache: the need to be seen, to touch something – someone? – that won’t vanish by morning. But connection too feels precarious, a mirage stretched across a digital wasteland. The mind, oversaturated and underslept, begins to blur the line between numbness and survival. There is no room to reflect; only to react. In such a world, exhaustion becomes a kind of loyalty, and staying sane, a quiet form of rebellion.
Vyka, born in Ukraine and now living in Berlin, bares her teeth and tenderness in One of Many, a song that sighs and stings in equal measure as it speaks of overstimulation and spiritual static. Silence feels foreign, stillness unbearable, and even connection can cut. The mind drifts, dragged by distractions, haunted by headlines, worn by want. The world wakes like a blow to the ribs.
Photo: Vika Temnova
Chorus-drenched post-punk guitars shimmer like glass in sunlight, synths swell and collapse, and drum machines march with mechanical melancholy, echoing the endless scroll of days too fast, too loud, too much. Written and produced by Vyka herself, the track is an art-pop hymn for the harried: those lost in the blare, bent under the burden of modern noise, yet still reaching for meaning in the din.
Vyka’s self-directed video for One of Many nods to the stark cinema of the 1960s: the cool minimalism of Andy Warhol and Mick Rock; Twiggy’s twitchy elegance. A white void turns black. A figure lashes out. A mirror stares back. It is push and pull. Want and withdrawal. The ache of asking what feeds you…and what feasts on you. Vyka sings for the many who ache in the noise, who hunger for hush, and who dare to dance in the disarray.
Watch the video for “One of Many” below:
Vyka will be performing on April 26th in Bordesholm. The EP release show takes place on May 17th in Berlin. Stay tuned.
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