Falling You explores transformation with Metanoia

Metanoia (self-released, December 2025) is the new album from Falling You: an ethereal / ambient musical project formed in 1995, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. In turn, Falling You is the project of composer and producer John Michael Zorko, collaborating with - and featuring front-and-center - other artists whom he very deeply admires.

For Metanoia, these collaborators include Dru Allen (Mercury’s Antennae, This Ascension), Courtney Grace, Slim Heilpern, Amelia Hogan, Anji Lum and Ryan Lum (Lovespirals / Love Spirals Downwards), Erica Mulkey (Unwoman), Colleen Segale, Shikhee (Android Lust), and Jennifer Wilde.

Like some of Zorko’s collaborators, Falling You is comparable to This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins or Slowdive; or the 1990s ethereal / darkwave roster of the renowned Projekt label who, in 2017, also released the previous Falling You album, Shine, and the retrospective compilation, Charms (Best Of 98-13). Earlier, largely self-released albums from Falling You also include: Mercy (1998), Touch (2005), Human (2006), Faith (2008), Adore (2011), and Blush (2013).

The new album, Metanoia, explores transformation – how events beyond our control cause us to reshape who we are. Through the lens of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and other myths from antiquity, these songs trace moments of profound change. Subtle blues inflections emerge within ethereal darkwave and shoegaze textures, grounding the album’s atmospheric reach. John Zorko elaborates:

“Metanoia means ‘change of mind’ or ‘change of heart’ in Greek – transformation born from adversity. Many of the songs pull from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which is full of people literally changing form, often against their will. Thinking about everything the world has been through these last several years, and how we’ve all had to adapt to circumstances we never chose, the theme just clicked. Growth implies we’re steering the ship, but sometimes change is thrust upon us, and that’s what this record explores.”

Metanoia is out now from Bandcamp, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Spotify and all the usual digital music platforms.