The most interesting thing about “Unicorn Stallions” by Cosmic Gloss might be the contradiction at its centre: a song built from electronic production that seems deeply preoccupied with the natural world. The moon, trees, flowers, the sea and even evolutionary imagery all find their way into Cosmic Gloss’s strange, fluid soundscape, creating something that feels both synthetic and instinctive.
The Leeds-based artist’s latest single moves through electronic pop and processed vocals without ever feeling particularly interested in staying still. Textures appear, disappear and return throughout the verses, creating a fluid, almost torrent-like motion. Rather than building towards one fixed sonic destination, the track keeps opening new spaces, mirroring its central idea of transformation and shapeshifting.
That sense of movement is also at the heart of the song’s story. Cosmic Gloss describes “Unicorn Stallions” as a response to restrictive worldviews and a growing desire for emancipation, a movement towards what they call our “unicorn-like ancient, timeless future selves.” It is an unusual phrase, but one that captures the track’s refusal to treat identity as something static.
The song’s creation process feels equally fluid. Recorded between the bedroom, dreamworlds, island coasts and wooded walks, the track emerged through conversations with “mirrored versions” of the self and others. Those surroundings seem to have found their way into the music, where organic imagery constantly collides with electronic textures.
And beneath all the cosmic imagery and sonic experimentation, there is something remarkably simple at its core: love as a force for transformation. As Cosmic Gloss puts it, “we’re shining proof of what love can do.”
“Unicorn Stallions” by Cosmic Gloss feels like an invitation to move beyond fixed states; to evolve, shapeshift, and find new ways of existing somewhere between the earthly and the ethereal!