When we started SYGNWAV, it wasn’t to launch a label. It was to build a space for transformation — for artists, for ourselves. Our first real test of that vision came with Things Don’t Last Forever, the debut project from Kigh G, released via SYGNWAV. It was more than an album. It was a mirror, a letter, and a challenge all at once.
Coming off the self‑released 92599, Kigh had already begun carving out a sonic identity rooted in emotion, minimalism, and melancholy. But with Things Don’t Last Forever, we wanted to push further — to give structure to the storm. The album explored themes of impermanence, masculinity, love, distance, and becoming. Every record was selected and sequenced like an open wound that somehow shimmered.
As executive producers, we were involved from the ground up. We helped Kigh G curate and refine an archive of over 100 tracks, eventually distilling them into two bodies of work: 92599 and the full-length Things Don’t Last Forever. Beyond the music, we led visual strategy, rollout planning, and narrative design. If Kigh was going to debut in an oversaturated industry, his arrival needed to cut through—not just with volume, but with clarity.
That clarity came through tension. Kigh is an Olympic-level wrestler—driven, dynamic, and physically expressive. We leaned into that energy by placing him in the center of brutalist architecture, dressed in a bold yellow Klout-Daemon uniform. The visual contrast wasn’t accidental. It was a statement: full-bodied sorrow with backbone, tension with poise. He didn’t want mystery—he wanted to be understood without dulling his edge. We translated that conviction across the tracklist, the visuals, the styling, and the story.
This being our first release, it also tested our infrastructure. Could we really incubate and direct talent end‑to‑end? Could we launch something meaningful without major resources? Things Don’t Last Forever was our way of answering that. And it worked. It gave us a shared language and proof of concept. It helped us solidify SYGNWAV as not just an idea — but a working organism.
📀 Tracklist
(As confirmed via streaming/digital listing)
- The Hand (Amazon)
- Obsessions of a Broken Individual (Amazon)
- Diamonds in the Ground (Amazon)
- Only Child Ignorance (Amazon)
- Keep Wishing (Amazon)
(Note: the listing shows 9 songs total on streaming platforms. (Spotify))
The cover of Things Don’t Last Forever captures the emotional architecture of the album in a single, unforgettable image. Working with Bay Area photographer, Lestyn Park(@lestynpark), we shot the key images in a brutalist parking structure, Kigh G appears perched mid-tier—isolated but composed, dressed in a striking yellow that contrasts the lifeless concrete spirals around him.
The composition was intentionally stark. There’s no crowd, no chaos—just one artist, one choice, one moment. That’s what this era felt like. You’re not at the top or the bottom. You’re caught somewhere in-between, held in that tension. It was important that the visual didn’t try to sell you a fantasy—it presented a lived-in truth.
We called it emotional brutalism. The kind of art that doesn’t offer comfort but invites clarity. That’s what the album was made for.
