If you are a fan of Lera Lynn, you already know simply how particular she is.

The American singer-songwriter from Houston, Texas, has slightly below 250,000 month-to-month Spotify listeners, and a back-catalogue of songs that vary from haunting to life-changing.

She’s launched eight albums because the dawn of her profession in 2011, however her new quartet of tracks are being dropped via a brand new sort of media for her: a online game.

Lynn has teamed up with Sega and Amplitude Studios to digitise herself right into a cyberpunk siren, performing music for gamers of the brand new roguelite sport Endless Dungeon (you can check that out right here).

The 38-year-old’s followers little question raised an eyebrow when it was introduced that she had joined forces with a online game firm – however she was extra shocked than anybody else. Speaking solely to Express.co.uk, Lynn laughed: “I was just as surprised as you are when they reached out and said: ‘We’re fans, and we’re wondering if you’d be interested in composing some songs for the soundtrack.'”

Lynn confirmed she “jumped at the opportunity” to work on the online game. 

She is, after all, no stranger to working with firms who endeavour to encompass their tasks in her ethereal soundscapes, as she beforehand wrote and carried out music for HBO‘s True Detective. Powerful, succinct, and unwavering, Lynn admitted: “I love a challenge. I love trying something new.” She was given a quick, with “general guidelines” on the songs’ tempo, main or minor scales, and whether or not she ought to goal for ballads or rock.

So, with the blueprints in thoughts, she started working. “I wrote the songs and then would do a work tape – a guitar-vocal kind of thing. And they actually never asked me to change anything about the songs. Once they approved the songs, we produced them with a full band in Nashville.”

Two of the tracks have been launched up to now (Free Again and The Garden) with one other two on the best way. And I assure you may take heed to them and be immediately enchanted. They do not feel like extra items tacked onto Endless Dungeon for the clout – they’re truly… actual music.

“That was definitely the goal,” Lynn defined. “My number one goal – I wanted the music to be music. To be standalone music. To be relatable outside of the game context. I’m lucky in that they enlisted me for this because they were fans and they wanted me to do what I do, and that’s always a really important part of any project.”

While writing, recording and producing music is one thing she seemingly does day by day, Lynn didn’t count on to finally be requested a particularly odd query: “Do you want to be in the game?” She recalled: “As the music developed, they asked if I would be interested in having an avatar developed, and having the avatar sing the songs in the saloon on the space station.” Now, between runs (deaths) in Endless Dungeon, you may be serenaded by Lynn’s character as you gear up in your intergalactic adventures.

As thrilling as it’s for Lynn to put in writing new music for an rising model beneath the umbrella of a robust online game firm, she’s going to little question have her critics. The music business typically appears down on partnership offers – particularly people who appear inauthentic. Naturally, Lynn has maintained her integrity via her collaboration with Endless Dungeon, however it’s one thing she is conscious of.

“I think when I was younger and I lacked the confidence to say: ‘Yes, I will do this project with you, but it has to be through my lens,’ I might have shied away from it,” she mused. “I might have thought that people working on projects like this were sellouts. But, now that I’m a professional, and I have to put food on the table, I just learned how to say what I want. And it has turned out that people have given me the license to do that.”

With that in thoughts, she confirmed: “If that weren’t the case, I might have backed out.”

Why does she assume this idea is seen to “besmirch” artists’ careers, although? “There is some fear on the artist’s side, mostly, that they would – I don’t know – maybe be taken less seriously by their own fanbase. I’m not really sure what the stigma is – but it’s wrong.”

One take heed to Lynn’s Endless Dungeons songs will alleviate any fears her followers (new or outdated) might need, although. And new, unbelievable music is all the time welcome. Thankfully, there’s much more coming. 

“I’m making another record right now,” Lynn introduced. “Just started on it. Hopefully, in the next six months, we’ll have something coming out. But maybe sooner!”

Lynn lately performed all through the UK in the summertime of 2023, however she has some “loose plans” to return again in “early 2024”.

Until then, you possibly can buy Endless Dungeon here.

Listen to Lera Lynn’s music here, or buy her latest album “Something More Than Love” here.