Eight months after appleLove, sollaceee! returns with sunheart. We caught up with the artist to discuss the pressure of the rollout, dropping a sister album to jayys's serein, and the dark, cyclical story behind the new project.
Jori: It has been nearly 8 months since our last interview when appleLove dropped. How have you been feeling since then? What has changed?
sollaceee!: Right now, I'm having the worst week of my life mentally and physically. I’m so glad I finished this album and already had it nearly complete when I did, or I might've scrapped it.
Jori: And that album, being sunheart, is a project you've been hyping up for a while. What has been affecting you mentally and physically? Has it been the stress of the album?
sollaceee!: sunheart was an album I made during the summer and fall after just grinding out so many beats that I genuinely liked. So I’d say, mentally, probably putting too much pressure on myself to make something good, along with just personal stuff. Physically is different; I've just been sick all week, so I wasn't at my A-game at all. I felt like a sluggish old man.
Jori: Do you think sunheart changed your views on how you make music? How high did you set your standards for this rollout?
sollaceee!: Making sunheart and watching jayys make serein, I saw him make magic. That's bro, always has been. The standard I have for this album is just to be better than my last. I already put appleLove to the side, and I think it left its mark for where I am now. Whatever comes after sunheart will be better than that, so I'm never worried. Progress is always the final outcome.
Jori: sunheart and jayys's serein seamlessly blend well together, especially when it comes to the production crew, features, and back-to-back drops. What would you say is mostly different from his project? Are you planning more collabs with him as well?
sollaceee!: We chose to drop these as sister albums. I see differences in how he mixes his vocals and his rapping, and his project overall is longer. We've been at this together for almost three years, and ain't shit changing now.
Jori: To close this off, tell me the story behind sunheart. What distinguishes it from appleLove?
sollaceee!: sunheart actually does have a story. It's about a rich dude who keeps wanting to have fun, but everywhere he goes, it always feels like ominous people from his past keep following him. He likes to go out, party, be at clubs, doing stupid stuff wherever he goes, and once he blacks out, it's like the negative aspects from his past just keep crawling in. Since he doesn't have any real kind of housing—even though he’s rich—he just moves states, and the cycle repeats.
sunheart releases this Friday, November 13, 2026. Pre-save and artwork will be available Wednesday.