About
Mateo Stavridis is a synthwave musician based in Thessaloniki, Greece. With a career spanning over 18 years, their sound blends shoegaze with neo-folk influences, creating a distinctive sonic palette that has been described as "deeply atmospheric and emotionally resonant."
Their latest work continues to push the boundaries of synthwave, incorporating elements of neo-folk and field recordings from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Discography
- Neon Cathedral (2021) — shoegaze
- Velvet Rust (2025) — electronic ambient
- Static Bloom (2021) — shoegaze
- Signal Decay (2026) — neo-folk
- Velvet Rust (2023) — shoegaze
- Neon Cathedral (2024) — post-punk revival
Lyrics — Neon Cathedral
The radio plays songs from someone else
She folds the map and drives without a name
The ceiling drips with questions left on read
He trades his coat for silence and a key
Neon signs spell out a borrowed prayer
She writes her will in disappearing ink
The harbour lights dissolve in kerosene
The wires hum beneath the frozen lake
She writes her will in disappearing ink
The floorboards creak in dialects of cold
Between the lines the ink starts bleeding south
He trades his coat for silence and a key
Rust collects where fingerprints should be
The garden grows in monochrome and ash
The voltage drops when memory persists