Hockitay has released over/over, the first single from a new EP due later in 2026 via Future Gods. The track arrives about a year after his sophomore EP slo mach, a five-track meditation on burnout and disconnection that has passed 100,000 streams since its May 2025 release.
Where slo mach leaned inward, over/over has more edges. Written during a period of heavy social media use, the song picks at the performative nature of belief and the exhaustion of living inside a constant feed of other people’s certainty. The lyric that lands hardest is a simple one: “I wear the jersey, but I’ve never seen them play.” It’s a precise description of how opinion circulates online, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome.
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Hockitay is the moniker of Santiago Castillo, a Guatemalan-born, Montreal-based artist who holds a BFA in Recording Arts from Concordia. Raised by a painter and a filmmaker, he handles his own art direction and approaches both sound and visuals as a collage, assembling elements separately and fitting them together later to see what holds. The production on over/over reflects that process; looping melodic fragments sit against distorted guitars and electronic textures that feel deliberately unresolved, simmering without releasing.
Castillo has cited James Blake, Bon Iver, and King Krule as touchstones, and you can hear all three without the music feeling derivative. The new EP, still untitled, is described as shaped by a broader disillusionment, a logical extension of where slo mach left off.
Photo – Buvard & David S. Blouin
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