Baltimore, Maryland · dreamgaze / grunge / 4-track

Envyes

The DIY bedroom project of Ryan Knight. Four-track, Hi-8, a Baltimore room. Songs about being lost enough to miss what is right in front of you — made by one person, released by the same person.

Play “Blow It Up” Four releases + a video

Latest: Blow It Up · single · 4 Sept 2026 · 3:18

Side A · self-released · DistroKid
A CRT television on a wood stand, a blurred face on the screenthe CRT in the room
taped to the wall above the 4-track.every video gets watched here first.— R.

Stills

Hi-8 frames, flash photos, loose tape — printed on the flyer in one ink. Hover for colour; click or tap to hold it.

Four people in a blue-cast night flash photo
00:04:12:08after the show, flash on
A figure crouched in a graffiti-covered corridor
00:11:37:21the corridor
Hi-8 frame: title card reading Windchimes over a backyard
00:00:03:00“Windchimes” — a decade-old garage demo
A compact cassette tape, close up
C-60side A, side B, hiss
Hi-8 frame from Blessings: a dog's face, blue and blurred
00:02:48:14“Blessings” — zoo, cemetery, Hi-8
A four-track cassette recorder
TRK 1–4bounce down, lose a generation
Baltimore rowhouses at night
BALTrowhouses, after dark
A Canon Hi8 camcorder
Hi8 · 8mmthe camera that shot “Blessings” (a cousin of it)
Howard Street, Baltimore
406 N HOWARDthe room with the shows
A TDK VHS cassette with a handwritten label
SP · 120found tape, label in pencil

Frames drift with the page (swipe them on a phone). Hold all ten and the strip stays in colour.

Releases

All self-released. Newest first.

Cuck / Let Down cover: a shirtless man seated against a white doorENVYES · 2025EP
Side BCuck · QT6FH2573639Let Down · QT6FH2573640UPC 199945291557Tidal 479980951

Cuck / Let Down

18 Dec 2025 · 2 tracks · 6:46

  • Cuck 3:12
  • Let Down 3:34

SpotifyAppleDeezerTidal

Blessings: a Hi-8 frame of a dog's faceENVYES · 2025Video
Side BHi-8 · Canon ES6500VBaltimore ZooHunt Valley cemeteryone camera, one take at a time

Blessings

Jan 2025 · video only · Hi-8

Shot at the Baltimore Zoo and a Hunt Valley cemetery. Not on streaming.

Watch on YouTube

Shows

Le Mondo, 406 N Howard St, Baltimore.

  1. 11 Sept 2026hey thanks. (NOLA) · Jeiku (Lafayette, LA) · Envyeslisting
  2. 9 Apr 2026BOYSCOUTMARIE (NYC) · Sleeptalk · Envyes · Chain of Memorieslisting

The room this comes from

If you got here from any of these, you are in the right basement.

EnvyesBaltimore · 4-track BaltimoreTurnstile · Dosser · End Ithouse shows · Ottobar · Le Mondo Philly basementTAGABOW · Knifeplay · Alex GMy Wife's An Angel · Julia's War Noise / no waveChat Pile · Show Me the BodyYHWH Nailgun · Flenser · AD 93 Heavy gazeDeftones · Far · DeafheavenTitle Fight Slowcore / bedroomFlooding · Knifeplay · LendermanGeese · Memo Boy · Kitchen The 90s that got us hereWeezer · Blink-182 · InterpolOvlov
Six rooms, one hallway. Bands Ryan keeps coming back to, grouped by the scene they belong to.
Baltimore rowhouses at night
Baltimore, after dark
Howard Street, Baltimore
N Howard St — Le Mondo is at 406

Baltimore

Hardcore that turned into something else — Turnstile out of the Charm City scene, Dosser's grunge-revival house shows, End It. Rooms: Ottobar, Le Mondo, basements.

Philly basement

The Julia's War orbit: They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Knifeplay's slow shoegaze, Alex G's bedroom lineage, My Wife's An Angel on Knife Hits. Tapes first, labels run by the bands.

Noise / no wave

Chat Pile (Oklahoma City, The Flenser), Show Me the Body's New York, YHWH Nailgun's 45 Pounds on AD 93. Ugly on purpose, built by hand.

Heavy gaze

Deftones and Far taught a generation of hardcore kids that distortion can be soft; Deafheaven and Title Fight's Hyperview finished the thought.

Slowcore / bedroom

Flooding (Lawrence, KS), Knifeplay, MJ Lenderman, Geese — quiet songs recorded close to the mic, plus Bandcamp-only names like Memo Boy and Kitchen.

The 90s that got us here

Weezer, Blink-182, Interpol, Ovlov's fuzz. Not the influence — the reason anyone picked up a guitar.

What these have in common is not a genre. It is small rooms, cassette runs, labels run by friends, and records that sound like the person who made them. That is the standard Envyes holds itself to: crafted, odd where it wants to be, and real.

About

Personal and unpredictable.

The Envyes mark: a hand-drawn script E with four tally strokes on burnt orange
the mark · one stroke per release

Envyes is the DIY bedroom project of Baltimore-based artist Ryan Knight — raised in the Maryland suburbs of Gaithersburg, with years of trial-and-error demos and a history of modest success in local DMV projects (My Friday Anthem, ish, Griswald) behind the sound.

Recording, engineering and filmmaking happen in the same room: a 4-track, a Hi-8 camera, a CRT. Kellii Scott plays drums on the planned recordings.

“Blessings is a reflection on being so lost in life that you take for granted the beauty and moments around you.”— Ryan Knight, to AnalogueTrash, Jan 2025

alternativedreamgazegrungeslowcorebedroom shoegaze4-track

Watch

Videos open on YouTube — nothing loads from here.

“Blessings”music video · Jan 2025 “Windchimes”video · Apr 2025 Channel@envyes.music5

Press

On “Blessings”.

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Write

Shows, collaborations, press.

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