Solkyri remixed by rhubiqs and Hollie Kenniff - This Is Where We Ended Up (Self Release) [Dream Pop]

The Slow Music Movement
Sep 27
2 min read

The cover for Solkyric remixed by rhubiqs and Hollie Kenniff - This Is Where We Ended Up, showing a colorful apartment building with balconies forms the backdrop for a basketball court. A person runs past palm trees. "This is where we ended up" text below.

Solkyri are news to me. An instrumental rock band with a hazy ambient and shoegazy disposition from Sydney who've been around for twenty years, aren't going anywhere but who are deftly surfing the ever changing music landscape.

Hollie Kenniff and rhubiqs shouldn't need an introduction to regular readers, having appeared multiple times in the blog and playlists, but just in case you missed all the fuss, Kennif is a Canadian-American electronic musician who solo, and with her equally talented hubby Keith Kennif, has been producing more ambient adjacent music than I know what to do with. Rhubiqs has only just crept onto TSMM's radar, but he's a prolific and always interesting producer, and fast becoming something of a remix specialist.

The original of this track was released at the start of 2025 and entitled, "Wherever We Ended Up Next", eventually cementing itself as the opening track on Solkyri's Cranebrook EP a classy, ethereally minded release which is well worth your time. With its patient droning, quivering string laced intro that builds to quite the crescendo before morphing into undulating orchestral folk territory, it's an ambitious beautifully realised arrangement.

Kennif and rhubiqs have done what all good remixes should do. Without any obvious flaws to fix they went about reimagining the track and opening it up to a new audience; plotting a shorter, less winding course with their dreamy remix in the process.

Kennif lends her airiest vocals to get the ball rolling as low gravity pads and minimal keys politely enter the soundscape like a summer sunrise on a still morning, before half way some warm, languid beats finally make it up the hill to join them and provide some gentle propulsion and a rhythmic frame to hold the politely arriving layers that radiate peace, love and patience through the speakers. Gone are most of the band members' contributions, intensity and orchestral endeavour, the track has been reincarnated and is having a more serene existence this time round, and when it sounds this nice that's OK.