KÁRYYN releases her new 10-track album PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL), out now via Mute.
PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) is the latest from Syrian-Armenian-American singer and producer, KÁRYYN. The new album is a body of work distilled from years of lived exploration into existence, intimacy, and time, where sound becomes the structure through which truth is communicated. KÁRYYN’s voice is the gravitational centre, carrying both weight and fragility as it shapes the record’s sonic world.
Describing her new album “not as inquiry but as conclusion rendered in sound”, PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) maps collapse and reformation through the narrative themes and structural truths of compassion, clarity, and courage. Grounded in physics as the universal language shaping time and space, she asserts that this same language governs inner spiritual coherence, love, and connection. “PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) isabout the forces that hold us, rearrange us, and pull us back together,” she says. “It’s a framework for understanding my relationship with Self. This record is the sound of my human revolution.”
PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) is about the forces that hold us, rearrange us, and pull us back together,” she says. “It’s a framework for understanding my relationship with Self. This record is the sound of my human revolution.”
The album’s first single, ‘COLLAPSE PHASE’, drew widespread acclaim, with KÁRYYN appearing on the cover of MusicTech Magazine and being highlighted by Women Moving The Needle alongside Lola Young, as well as receiving support from Pitchfork, The Line of Best Fit, and others. Built on the tension between sustain and decay, the track unfolds like energy held far beyond its limit — no longer seeking release, but asserting it. It captures the moment the final illusion collapses, revealing clarity rather than chaos.
As KÁRYYN explains, “‘COLLAPSE PHASE’ is the sonic threshold of confrontation and acceptance. It’s the sound of outdated systems breaking down — relational, emotional, foundational — no longer serving the universal truth that has arrived. It’s the moment I become the force itself, drawing everything obsolete to its end so something true can exist.”
Driven by gravitational rhythms, suspended vocal lines, and a sense of sovereign, deliberate rupture, ‘COLLAPSE PHASE’ introduced the album’s emotional stakes as a point of arrival, where agency is fully claimed and transformation is no longer a process, but a fact.
PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) was executive produced by KÁRYYN and James Ford and co-produced with Hudson Mohawke, with additional production by Jacques Greene, Steve Nalepa, Luca Perry, and Duncan Fuller. String arrangement and performances come from Raven Bush, alongside qanun performances by internationally acclaimed Syrian qanun player Maya Youssef. The album was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Joker.
Built from voice, strings, modular synths and gravitational beats tuned to 432Hz, the record incorporates string arrangements informed by Armenian and Middle Eastern musical traditions, woven quietly into rhythm and melody as the album spans the intimate and the expansive. At its heart, PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) is a declaration of courage, connection and renewal; the willingness to confront, collapse, feel and rise.
“I went hunting for dark matter,” KÁRYYN says, “and instead I found brilliance, light, and potential.”
PHYSICS UNIVERSAL LOVE LANGUAGE (PULL) is out now on limited edition white vinyl, CD and digital via Mute.
TRACKLISTING — CAT #STUMM 479
01 — COLLAPSE PHASE
02 — ELSEWHEN
03 — FURTHER WE FALL
04 — GROUND
05 — END TO KNOWING YOU
06 — PULL
07 — the 6TH
08 — KEEPER
09 — MIND OVER HEART
10 — FWD
