Gabriel Audee Releases New Single‘DICHOTOMY (The Chosen Ones)’

DICHOTOMY (The Chosen Ones) - released February 27th - is the kind of track that announces itself. A genre-bending collision of indie-pop and trap, it opens wide and stays there: cinematic, emotionally charged, built with the kind of structural ambition that most pop music actively avoids. It is also, unmistakably, a song with something to say.

"I was inspired by what is going on politically and spiritually in our amazing country," Gabriel Audee explains. "I needed to have a chant anthem for the ones who see through the smoke and mirrors - the fighters and protesters who see the world for what it is." The result is less a single than a summons. A rallying point for what Audee calls those who "pierce the veil and help people wake up" - the self-aware, the politically conscious, the ones who refuse to look away.

The track began with a beat. Producer JRum crafted the instrumental; Audee expanded it into something far larger - layering electric guitar, acoustic drums, synths, and lush pads across a soundscape that rises and breathes with deliberate purpose. Then came the voices. Vocalist Saule Ilona Vaida delivers the hook with a luminous, almost dreamlike quality that offsets the track's underlying tension; rapper Lil Dee - who co-wrote his section - arrives on the bridge with a confidence that cuts clean through. The contrast is the point. Dichotomy, after all, is the whole idea.

Early comparisons have reached toward OneRepublic, Benny Blanco, and Alex Warren - and there's a footnote worth noting here. Audee did pitch the track to OneRepublic. They responded positively to the demo. That the version featuring Saule Ilona Vaida and Lil Dee ultimately proved to be the right realisation says something about Audee's instincts - and his willingness to trust them.

Those instincts were forged early and under pressure. Growing up as a closeted gay teenager in small-town Colorado, Audee found his way through music the only way available to him: obsessively. Bands, beats, songwriting, painting - anything that gave shape to an interior life that couldn't yet be lived publicly. That formative experience of designing feeling from the inside out became, eventually, his entire artistic premise. He writes. He produces. He mixes. He chooses vocalists who co-write and inhabit each track as co-authors. "I don't sing - I design the feeling," he says, with the ease of someone who worked hard to arrive at that clarity.

DICHOTOMY (The Chosen Ones) sits within a growing catalogue that spans club-ready rap anthems, workout-friendly hooks, and singer-songwriter introspection - all of it unified less by genre than by a certain philosophical restlessness. His debut LP Pop Architect is in the final stretch, collecting previously released singles including 111, SUPERNOVA, CRUISIN', and LONERZ alongside the new track. Playlist placements across 100,000+ Spotify playlists and Apple Music radio have been building the foundation; the album campaign - which includes press and a new podcast - suggests Audee is ready to let it be seen.

The official music video is already live, and unsurprisingly, Audee directed and edited it himself. The visual and the sonic share the same DNA: meticulous, purposeful, made by someone who knows exactly what he wants to say and has taken the time to work out how to say it.

At a moment when the pop landscape rewards speed and disposability, there is something quietly radical about that. An architect, building slow and building true.