Brakence resurfaces with a teaser site called Still Here

Brakence is back, or close to it. A site called Still Here went up this week at still-here.world, and it was built by Columbia Records, the artist's label. It is the clearest signal in years that new music is coming.

The page is almost nothing, and that is on purpose. Black screen. An open wooden door that opens onto a red velvet room. One button. Press it and a clip plays, twenty-five seconds long, then it stops. No date, no title, no tracklist, no link to save anything. The metadata names Brakence and Columbia, and the footer reads Sony Music Entertainment, so this is official, not a fan build.

That matters because Brakence had gone quiet. Randall Findell, who records as Brakence, is from Columbus, Ohio, and he became one of the names people used to explain where hyperpop was heading. His 2022 album hypochondriac was a record younger producers studied and learned the sound from. Then he mostly stepped back. That album was his last solo release. Since then there was one guest verse, on Aries' "Sleepwalker" in 2025, and not much else.

For a while it had the shape of a familiar story. An artist becomes central to a sound, carries a wave, and is gone before the run feels finished.

The clearest version of that story is Shiloh Dynasty, and the timing is hard to miss. It has been almost ten years since she last posted. Her final message, in September 2016, was a short clip captioned "Come here." Then she was gone.

She left behind barely ten minutes of released audio, most of it short clips she sang into Vine and Instagram, with a few songs on SoundCloud. It was enough. Producers started sampling her around 2015, and her voice became the backbone of lofi and chillhop. Potsu's flip of her landed on three songs on XXXTentacion's 17. Young Thug used her on "Climax." Juice WRLD used her on "Run." For years people thought she had died, until her former management debunked the rumor in 2019 and said she was simply private, that she wanted privacy more than fame. She never came back.

Brakence is not Shiloh Dynasty, and the details are different. But the fear was the same. Someone who mattered to a sound went dark, and fans were left guessing whether the best of it had already happened, and whether they would hear from him again.

Still Here answers part of that. The name is the point. Ten years after Shiloh Dynasty went quiet with a clip that said "Come here," Brakence left a door open. Fans found the page within hours and started pulling it apart on Reddit. The audio is short and gives little away, though the site's own code labels the file "jester," the kind of detail people hold onto until there is more.

There is no release date yet. Columbia has not said what the project is or when it lands. For now there is a door, a room, and a button, and the fact that Brakence, after years of quiet, wanted people to find it.

Still Here is at still-here.world.