Indie Project Pinwheel Valley unveil new single ‘Can’t Hear A Sound’ and announce ‘Hello From Afar’ EP
Emerging Indie project Pinwheel Valley have unveiled another stirring single titled ‘Can’t Hear A Sound’ via Hot Soap Records. The band has also announced that it is gearing up to release a new EP, Hello From Afar, set to land in November this year. With over 2 million streams across platforms, features in CLASH Magazine, METAL Magazine, Kaltblut Magazine, NOTION, Earmilk, Billboard Argentina, and airplay on BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Sheffield, RTÉ 2FM, as well as NPR Music, the band has built a reputation for emotional depth and sonic ambition. Their single ‘Your Superman’ debuted at No. 13 on the US iTunes Alternative Chart, while award-winning videos for ‘Willow’ and ‘Abduction’ earned Best Music Video honours at international film festivals including New York Film Awards, Vegas Movie Awards, and the Swedish International Film Festival.
Led by Jordanian-Canadian singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Qais Khoury, Pinwheel Valley is a project born of deep introspection and wide-eyed exploration. Qais’ brainchild blossoms into a full band for live performances consisting of Qais on vocals, guitar and keys, Stephanos Marangos (Lead/Supporting Guitar), Max Daniels (Bass/Ableton), and Stephanos Meletiou or Phrangiskos Petrisis on drums. Originally known as KAIS, the project has evolved into a genre-blurring soundscape that fuses Indie Soul, mellow Alt-Rock, and Folktronica, drawing from a wide array of inspiration including Jeff Buckley, Bon Iver, James Blake, and Radiohead. At once cinematic and intimate, Pinwheel Valley’s music dwells in the spaces between our deepest instincts and the relentless pressures of an ego-driven, late-stage capitalist world.
From writing songs at thirteen to studying production in London at Point Blank Music School, Qais’ musical path has always been a soulful defiance of expectations, nurtured by a childhood surrounded by his father’s renditions of Sinatra and Elton John, and shaped by a cross-cultural upbringing that spans Amman, London, Vancouver, and now Cyprus, where he runs Hot Soap Studios Ltd. ’Can’t Hear A Sound’, sure to ensnare fans of City and Colour, Alberta Cross, and Radiohead, was produced and written by frontman Qais Khoury.
’Can’t Hear A Sound’ is a moving track of monumental proportions. Qais’ voice, vast and imbued with agony, echoes over an expansive instrumental arrangement of stirring strings, soulful guitar strums and cinematic drums. It is a song that contains multitudes; so evocative and timeless that it leaves the listener in a daze of emotion.
Frontman Qais Khoury shared: “‘Can’t Hear A Sound’ is a song of bloodlines and soil, of war and the restless pull of home. It is a cry carried on the wind, calling to kin who have wandered astray, drawn into circles that could never hold them. A plea for their return to the ground where their fathers lie sleeping. It is both invocation and vow — a promise to shield them, body and soul, whatever the cost, and to guard the earth that holds their roots. The song does not turn away from the truth that the land itself has been altered — that war has crept to our own shores, reshaping the very fields we swore to protect. The silence is no longer peace but the ringing echo of bombs, a quiet so loud it haunts the ear. Yet in the midst of this devastation, the song reaffirms its oath: that to remain bound to one’s roots is the only way to live honestly, to find a way through the world without becoming lost.”
