About 2025

2025 has been one of the most interesting years we can remember.

We released Aloft, an album that reached a lot of people in a very special way and one that we ourselves put on repeat often, because it has this strange little thing that keeps pulling us back to it again and again.

As some of you may have guessed, we’re related to technology in our everyday lives, but until this year we did not think of merging it with music, at least not like we’re doing now. And we’re not talking about using AI (not even remotely), but about development and art, about other ways of interacting with music… about other worlds that exist within this one.

One of the things we want to do at the beginning of next year is to tell you about the idea of transmedia (or how we understand it) and how we’re integrating it into our creations.

All of this is taking a lot of work (and study) and that has made us quieter lately, so before continuing with our 2025 thoughts, we wanted to thank everyone who’s there supporting us in all the crazy things we try. The number of people who’ve written to us this year to give us support and to chat about the things we share is amazing and keeps growing, so THANK YOU, because without you this wouldn’t be possible.

And what about 2025? It is more obvious than ever that we live in a system built on FEAR.

Not the kind of fear that keeps you safe from a predator, but a more evil one, a structural one that’s there to keep people in place with tools as basic and powerful as the fear of losing what little they have, of not being able to sustain a living, dreading that any step outside the “line” might have catastrophic consequences. A fear managed and distributed like Huxley’s Soma to maintain obedience.

One that accompanies every decision like accepting terrible jobs, putting up with things that you would have rejected before, keeping quiet so as not to bother anyone, not claiming your rights so you don’t get replaced. A surveillance system that doesn’t need of external forces to function because we carry it inside, since it only needs of each person to be convinced they can’t afford the price of dignity.

Meanwhile, the “discourse” tells us that we’re part of a civilized society full of opportunities and that if you work hard enough, you’ll achieve great things.

Sure, honey, meritocracy in a job market where the degree and master no longer guarantee anything, where hard work sometimes isn’t even enough to make a living, where it seems like you can’t even think about the future anymore because wars, because recession, because AI, because… fear.

Fear, friends. We think that we need to be very afraid of fear itself, because it has become an emotional glue that keeps us more or less functioning as a society. Functioning, but not progressing.

We feel that progress should mean that everyone can have a life in which they can get an education, be healthy, eat every day, have a home, have dignity. Progress that means living peacefully and that is living without fear. Having the basics covered to start with and then everything else, but progress seems to be focusing on very different things.

And then we get to music, where precariousness is the norm and where what scares us the most is not not being able to reach X plays on our latest song, but that everyone knows how musicians and artist are treated and most of them just don’t give a fuck about it.

What terrifies us is how normal it has become to play without getting paid, or to be offered “exposure” as payment, tours that generate debt, the story that “if you enjoy what you do it’s not work”, or that “this is what it is”. The fact that music is the only business we know where the last one who profits, if so, is the one who creates the product. Watching people in the industry embrace AI, knowing how it was trained and what that means for human artists, or watching other artists do it because “everyone is doing it”, no questions asked.

But hey, maybe it is just us, that are fearing the wrong stuff or something...

The music industry is one of the clearest examples of fear weaponized as a control tool, because it works on the basis that if you don’t do what they say, you don’t exist. That if you don’t do this or that, you won’t get anywhere. And people swallow the idea and even scold you if you refuse to swallow it yourself.

An industry made up mostly of people who, when they get a bit of power, reproduce the abuse to cling to it, justifying all the injustices they used to criticize. Fear turns them into prisoners and police at the same time. Lovely.

The idea that you’re going to lose whatever little shit you have, however little it is, because “that´s better than nothing”, because it’s a system that feeds on the idea that you have to earn the right to a minimum dignity.

This year we’ve seen many people in the industry trying to justify atrocious things (abusive gig conditions, AI gobbling up copyright, streaming platforms in general, etc.) and then acting like they support the underground, like they are anti-system and rock’n’roll. But keeping a very controlled rebel flare, right? Because it seems you are allowed to be rebel, but only if you stick to a tacit script, the drugs-sex-and-rock’n’roll one, which seems to be the ideological range where the rebel pose sells. But be careful what you say, because there may come a time when you might actually start to piss off the system and that´s a no- no, Hun!.

This year has taught us a lot about where our limits are as artists and also that dignity is not an object that can be taken from you, it’s a state of mind.

That it’s better to face the unknown than to keep happily contributing to a system in which everyone profits except the creator and nowadays it’s not just that, it is that while everyone profits they also steal artists’ creations to train robots designed to replace them.

But if we all start refusing to be exploited, things change. Every small step can contribute to a huge change and the system knows it. Why would they need fear for otherwise?

Anyway, this year besides deciding to explore other techniques and ways of expressing ourselves, we also decided to fear fear itself and to start doing (or not doing) many things, and we’ve discovered a peace of mind and a way of enjoying creation that we had no idea existed.

Funny thing is that that’s partly what Aloft talks about, about exploring that line in the human mind were thoughts are born, thoughts that can have a very physical effect on people´s lives but when identified as mythology loose all their power.

One last hint about 2025, from just this week, that it Suno and Warner becoming “besties.”

The fact that Warner, which as the owner (until Netflix is) of the copyrights of a huge number of artists and therefore the party legally responsible for protecting them, is making deals with a company that has basically trained its AI by stealing people’s songs without their consent, is very 2025. But that’s not the worst part, the worst part is reading people’s comments on social media every time someone shares this news. The whole “well, it’s progress, because we went from the typewriter… blah blah”, “AI is inevitable… blah blah”… that kind of stuff.

People that justify stealing artists’ rights because they want the fucking Ghibli-style image or the fucking song with the guy from ACDC doing reggaeton to scrape 2 clicks and get their dopamine hit, because the rest doesn’t matter, right? Evolution, right? Now that´s really scary. What a strange way to love that is reading someone say “I adore Ghibli” and then seeing them create a wreck of an image in his style using AI.

There’s going to be a lot of conversation left pending for this year, but we’ll have it in 2026, because we truly believe that if we don’t talk about it, if we don’t share information and don’t really know how things work, it’s hard to make good choices, right?

So now, what about 2026?

At Greengoat, this will be a year of studying and experimenting, because we’re not only creating new music, we’re building a small “world” about we still can’t share much, but that we believe will be something interesting to experience.

And so to finish, we want to wish you a 2026 in which you feel more freedom, where you realize that everything you do has value and matters, where you do what makes you happy as long as it doesn’t harm anyone and where you’re not afraid anymore.

May there be more dialogue and may progress not only be technological but also social, ethical, emotional, artistic and intellectual.

Happy 2026 and don´t forget to Dream, Create, Rebel.

Love,

Greengoat