Scott Holiday has spent more than thirty years as the instinctive guitarist behind Rival Sons, but this September he’s stepping into unexplored territory with HOL1D4Y, a brand new solo project that shows a completely different creative side. The debut album‘TOPOLOGY’arrives September 25, 2026, and it’s nothing like what you might expect from a rock guitarist branching out. The first single‘VERIDREAM’merges psychedelic rock with cosmic fuzz and progressive synth textures while somehow maintaining genuine pop appeal. It’s experimental yet accessible, trippy yet grounded.
The conceptual foundation of TOPOLOGY adds another layer of intrigue. Holiday collaborated with Dr. Dylan Trigg, a philosophy researcher at Central European University in Vienna, to frame the album around the mathematical concept of topology as a metaphor for human connection. The album explores themes of love, separation, societal bonds, healing, and technology’s impact on our minds and spirits. It’s the kind of ambitious, layered approach to songwriting that takes a solo project beyond standard rock fare and into something genuinely artistic and thought-provoking.
What’s perhaps most inspiring about this project is Holiday’s creative process. Rather than stress over deadlines and perfectionism, he established a daily studio ritual: wake up, pick up the guitar, write something. It might be a complete song or just a forty-five-second fragment, but the goal was maintaining creative momentum rather than chasing productivity. That philosophy, refined over decades with Rival Sons, became the backbone of TOPOLOGY’s creation. Are you planning to check out TOPOLOGY when it drops in September, or does psychedelic rock not typically catch your attention?
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