2 October 2026 – Sycco Looks Up and Finds Pop, Soul, R&B and Electronica All Living on the Same Farm

Brisbane artist Sycco releases second album Look Up today via Future Classic, moving comfortably between pop, soul, R&B and electronica across a record substantially created on a farm on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. Recording away from the conventional studio environment can occasionally become the sort of biographical detail publicists mention because somebody saw a horse through the control-room window, but Look Up genuinely appears shaped by the freedom of its setting.

Sycco's music has always been difficult to confine to one genre without several parts escaping, and album number two embraces that problem rather than attempting to solve it. Electronic textures coexist with warmer soul influences and pop songwriting, allowing the record to change temperature without losing its centre. That eclecticism reflects a generation of independent and alternative artists who grew up with playlists rather than record-shop genre aisles and consequently see little reason to ask permission before borrowing from neighbouring sounds.

Look Up also represents an important second-album moment for Sycco: the point where early promise has to become an identifiable body of work. The result sounds less concerned with proving versatility than simply enjoying it. Apparently taking pop music to a farm does not necessarily produce folk. Sometimes it just gives the synthesizers more room.