Ka$tro’s new single “ASHES” is centered around ghostly guitar riffs and raw emotion, stripped bare right down to the bone. The track sounds like staring into the fire after everything’s fallen apart, asking yourself what’s left. It’s haunting, honest, and painfully beautiful. The Bay Area native turned San Diego creative shapeshifts between the genres lo-fi hip-hop, phonk trap, hyperpop, and shoegaze rock, yet always stays rooted in emotion. His tasteful production approach and gritty guitar tone elevates his music, taking a DIY track and turning it into something really special. Ka$tro’s sleeper hit “In Essence,” which spawned hundreds of thousands of TikToks and racked up over 70m streams on Spotify, showed how his music can serve as a vessel for listeners to build their own worlds. Always evolving, Ka$tro has become one of the underground’s most versatile and emotionally raw artists and continues to rebuild himself in real time, one […]
