Rotate Talk With Night Wolf + Lois Powell – “Unstoppable” Interview

There’s something quietly powerful about the way Night Wolf and Lois Powell create together. No overthinking, no forced formulas, just instinct, emotion, and a shared understanding of where a song needs to go. On Unstoppable, their third collaboration, that chemistry feels more natural than ever, evolving from earlier ideas into something built entirely from the ground up.

Blending cinematic trip hop textures with indie pop sensitivity, Unstoppable unfolds like a story in motion. It begins in a fractured, intimate space before gradually expanding into something bigger, brighter, and more resolute. At its core, the track captures a delicate balance between vulnerability and strength, with Lois Powell’s raw, unfiltered vocal delivery meeting Night Wolf’s immersive, story-driven production.

In this conversation, the duo opens up about their creative process, the spontaneity behind the record, and how Unstoppable marks a turning point not just in their collaboration, but in the emotional worlds they bring into their music.

Unstoppable is your third collaboration. What makes this creative partnership work so well?

L.P: We are both good at what we do. We get on with it. Bim bam bosh. No questions asked, just vibes. Unless Night Wolf’s trying to get me to sing on a certain rhythm.

N.W: We have had time now to learn about how each other work when in creative mode and as our first two songs being Lost My Way Home and Death Of The Wolf, I had already got those ideas up to a point mostly where it just needed the vocal laid, I had written the lyrics for the first song and the first part of Death Of Wolf and then Lois took over with the rest of lyrics. Unstoppable was the first song we created together from the ground up and just went with the flow of how we were feeling that day. I think her voice is unique and stands out with the style of music that I enjoy making; it just works so well. I am quite excited to hear what else we can do in the near future as we certainly have our best work ahead of us yet. I think we have become friends and I enjoy guiding Lois in the music world as much as I can with my limited knowledge. It was just meant to be as I was out looking that night we met on an open mic night in a bar in Bedford, for a female singer as its all I could hear singing my lyrics for the first song, we then in quite a short amount of time ended up completing 4 with more to come! We are also getting ready to start shooting for our music videos for each single so keep your eyes peeled.

What does this song represent for both of you personally?

L.P: Feelings of invincibility.

N.W: This song is for me playing out a scene at sunset, where the main character has been fighting to keep head above water and is running away from problems during the main part of song, for it to resolve and them to turn around and drive head on into the chaos or storm at the end with some form of resolution , following the light at the end of the dark tunnel. Personally it hits home with Lois’s lyrics but she very much made this her own song and very likely has a different emotion to this song then me. I really enjoyed building this song. It all fit together and flowed very easily. It feels like a reminder when listened back to that there is a chance of change and a feeling of optimism ends the song for me.

“Unstoppable” opens on a distorted acoustic guitar — that’s a very deliberate and unexpected choice. What drew you to that texture as the entry point for the track?

L.P: Night Wolf just wanted me to play guitar, maybe to add that singer-songwriter vibe I’m not sure.

N.W: Lois had sent me before we met a couple of demos of her recording at home playing the guitar and singing, this riff kept appearing in the song she was playing and instantly I could hear in my head the drums forming and string elements. I asked her to come to my home studio to record the guitar part and we ended up processing it straight away and looping it, we then built the whole song around this guitar part, adding more vocals and then building it out around Lois just enough so she could have full runs at it. We then took multiple takes with Lois singing and kept pushing each time for it to go a little more intense, this reflects in the end product of the song. It was all very natural and easy flowing and it just made sense to end the song with a sort of climax and resolve. I enjoy using guitar in songs, I enjoy listening to a lot of music with more instruments and sadly suck at playing the guitar otherwise there would be more of it in my music. This was fun to build with Lois and our first song that we built from the ground up where Lois was let loose to do her thing!

The lyrics are described as “positive but seen through a broken lens — resilience with an honest edge.” Lois, where did that emotional space come from for you, and Night Wolf, how did you translate that into the sonic world around her voice?

L.P: Took a while to get to positive with my lyrics. Of course the broken lens came through when I’ve been writing heartbreak my whole life. This song is the turning point seeing into the world of positivity.

N.W: Lois is very good at laying down multiple takes when recording, she then leaves it in my hands so to say to arrange it where I hear it, Lois’s style of singing is unique and she does not like to conform to a set pattern so to say. Lois was able to feel the vibe of the song we were creating in real time together and selected lyrics she had wrote that fit the tone of the song, we played around a little to section out a part that would work as a chorus , but it was felt that it certainly needed to have a moment where it really comes together and have a climax, this just came naturally as said before due to the way we recorded vocals, with me pushing Lois each take to go a little more intense. I really enjoy working with her voice and she is able to capture brilliant moments in each take so the content is easy to work with.

Lois, your writing is described as having unguarded vulnerability. How do you protect that quality in a collaborative studio environment, and Night Wolf, how do you build a space where that kind of honesty can exist?

L.P: Well, I don’t think I’m protecting it. The mic is the time to speak the truth. Night Wolf is respectful.

N.W: Lois is able to storytell in her writing and does not hold back in her feelings, I just know that her voice can sound very ethereal and sometimes leaning more towards Folk but then towards Opera, she is very talented and should be proud of herself. It is easy to work with artists when they are able to build the vision of a song in their head as it’s being built. I am not sure if that was English but I hope you get what I mean. I try to make her feel as comfortable as can be while recording and have learnt to let her just keep going without stopping and starting when an idea comes in my head quickly. I think our next song The Laws Of Life really is showing how I learnt to build around her voice instead of having her voice over my work on this song, we built the song together.

Night Wolf, you’re known for cinematic trip hop and ambient textures. How would you describe the Night Wolf sound in 2026 compared to when you started in 2018?

N.W: Well I have certainly refined my music and production techniques since first releasing my first album with Flipper Music in 2018 and am still learning, but I have been creating music my whole life, had a drum kit at 3 which I broke like a little rock star, went to scottish marching band and percussion groups , played the drums with many best friends made in guitar players through school and creating bands, going from 8 members called Hed Shot to 4 members and no name but sounding a lot better! I then took piano lessons from a young age too and we were lucky enough to have an upright piano at home. I only got my grade 3 and stopped wanting to go to lessons when I had a strong urge to create my own music rather than playing other peoples’ music. Which I regret somewhat now as I am older and want to play the piano more and more, it is not too late to finish my grades and is most likely another thing I will aim to tick off my list of things to do! I then got my first workstation when I was 18 I think, it was a Roland Fantom X6 and I learnt how to put together full songs on this without using a laptop or DAW up until I learnt how to use one when I was 19-20 years old! I then first released some albums with a newly formed label in Swansea I think called Fly Productionz, after a lack luster start in the music world I was approached during this time by a music library called The Music Jar and landed my first Film Trailer through them for The Essex Boys Retribution where they used 2 pieces of my music one with a fellow producer called Centrist who I collaborated with remotely for a few years. After this I went on a long travelling journey and got very lost in my life up till around a point in 2018 where I was approached by Flipper Music with an offer. I then ended up over this time releasing 9 albums with them and have I would say quite an impressive line up of clients and placements now that have either used or still use my music around the world. My work has now been in major productions around the world including NFL, MLB, The Red Cross, Netflix’s El Club, Hollyoaks and many more, if you want to see work so far or are interested in potentially wanting to use anything you can contact me directly on my website – www.nightwolfuk.com

Lois, as a vocalist, how did you approach the climax of Unstoppable to ensure it felt powerful without losing its emotional intimacy?

L.P: I was just vibing. Night Wolf looped the track and I just improvised. The intimacy could be because it wasn’t rehearsed, just sung as felt.

If you had to describe the Night Wolf sound to someone who’d never heard a note of your work, in one sentence, what would you say?

L.P: Classical meets hip hop?!

N.W: Yer this is always just a string of words rather than saying what kind of music I make is, as it spreads across different genres, if I say experimental that’s pushing it too far, cinematic is not even a genre, but is close, pop or alt pop sometimes then switching to hip hop/trip hop with electronic influences. I enjoy creating music to reflect how I feel when making it, mostly depressed haha! But that is good for my music to be honest as I do not tend to try and make happy stuff, so do not make me smile 😉 I have been told without sounding like I have a huge ego that my music sounds like , well , my music! Which is a really good thing to hear in my world, I do not want to sound like this and that person and I certainly do not go looking for trends or what is selling, which might be my own undoing, however I just enjoy to make music with feeling and being creative is very therapeutic to me. Sometimes the music is being made more with the thought of it playing out in a scene, I do not really worry too much about my drums being too prevalent for some background music as I just give other versions without or it can be rebuilt how they want it. But If I had to say in a sentence what is my sound – its cinematic trip hop alt popish sometimes just instrumental sometimes with other artists and collaborating! I found to be honest that while trying to promote these songs, it was very hard to select the genre or main genre as there are so many sub genres out there now and some that are not listed or someone else interprets the music as another genre, and then you have to pigeonhole yourself to fit in with the rest! Rant over.

What does independence mean to you now as a producer and label owner?

N.W: As previously having all my work and albums handled by Flipper Music/Barry Music and Deneb Records, I never had an input on the album name or artwork, never new specific release dates and it was never treated like other music releases where I promote it and myself so I have been in the background for a good while and refused to get with the times of having to constantly push stuff out on social media to get people to listen, but times have changed and I want to now come out of my shell a bit more and more so to push the artists that I work with and collaborate with moving forward, to be able to have full control over artwork, design, promotion ( although still very much learning), marketing and radio plugging as well as reaching out to get reviews and such, it is certainly a learning curve for me to be fully independent . But this has all just pushed me after my decision to part ways and no longer release my music with Flipper Music to push my own music and myself more, I have established my website to allow people to lease music or contact me directly for future songs, I will also still be working on gaining placements in visual projects and hopefully land some synch projects with the new music but it will be me pushing it to the music supervisors this time, we have been told many times that these songs would fit well in a James Bond film of such the as the like, I will also be promoting my other works which I am also in process of doing right now. So it is all systems go for me currently and I am also in process of creating a sound effect and foley company called No Paw Audio, I am currently creating 10 packs to be available for purchase and will be releasing my services later this year, whilst also creating content for our social media channels and even our music videos for our songs which I will record and edit to my best ability whilst figuring it all out myself. It is a lot of work, but if it’s worth it to you then you have to work on your dreams. So I would appreciate the following if you would like to be part of the early journey to establishing my new ventures. But more so would appreciate people listening to our releases 🙂

What advice would you give emerging artists who want cinematic depth in their music but don’t know where to start?

N.W: I would suggest to invest into some Orchestral VST’s , It has taken me some time to be able to get the more pricey libraries out there and I am currently using a mixture of BBC Symphony Orchestra Pro, Musio and a selection from Spitfire Audio, I also still go back to what I first started on which was Miroslav Philharmonik. There are some amazing sounds out there now and also invest in some decent Piano VST’s such as Keyscape or Addictive Keys. But otherwise it is to me not about any structure or set pattern to creating something with some cinematic qualities , that is just down to you and your mood and how you hear or see in your minds eye how this song is turning out your creating , is it following someone or something, is it the main character or just scenery , what is the tone, where are they , what age period etc. But this is then already thinking too much and not doing, unless you are creating something too brief of course which is where you must adhere to some of what the client wants haha! If you enjoy creating music and just want to make stuff sound more cinematic so to say, play around with textures and your effects available and just play! Experiment , experiment , experiment. Every youtube video I have ever watched about production techniques has gone in one ear and out the other, as I learn by doing and not watching, I feel it sticks in your brain on how to achieve a desired result when you had to learn how to do it to begin with. Also vocals I feel is a huge part of completing that overall sound of ethereal and tame blended with unhinged and dark undertones works so well, again some fantastic libraries out there for ethereal sounds but working with a singer that can pull of this almost Operatic performance is certainly a big plus!

Lois, BBC Introducing has championed your voice for its delicacy and honesty. How has that support shaped your confidence as a songwriter?

L.P: Very well. It’s good to have backing from a reputable source.

N.W: We are also currently awaiting to hear back from BBC Introducing now as our new song The Laws Of Life which is released on 21st March 2026 on EscaVolt Records, has been selected as a featured track of the month, we will release details once we know fully what that means 😉 They have also played Death Of The Wolf and will be playing Unstoppable too shortly. Keep up with us on socials if you want to hear what happens shortly! @NightWolfUK , @LoisPowellMusic .

What’s next for both of you? More collaborations, solo projects, anything in the works you can share?

L.P: Working on an EP right now with my boyfriend, including a love song we wrote together and a song for my friend that passed. Me and Night Wolf will be working on some music videos shortly and I’m sure more songs will come from our duo.

N.W: As mentioned before I have a lot going on in my world right now and its all hands on deck, Keep an eye on my website www.nightwolfuk.com and also my company No Paw Audio for more information on upcoming projects and to be able to contact me directly and be the first to be able to use the new sound effect packs coming soon. We have our next song together which is called The Laws Of Life which is released on EscaVolt Records on 21st March 2026 on all online streaming platforms. We are awaiting to hear what is to come of the song being picked as a featured track with BBC Introducing. We have our music videos to come as well which will be us creating it fully independently. I have another song coming out on the 26th April 2026 on EscaVolt Records called Kickback – The Fods + Night Wolf and then all my focus and energy is switching to putting the music into the right hands and to seek placements as well as radio play and other bits and bobs to push the music further afield. I am also working on creating my first sound effect packs for No Paw Audio and all the videos and content to go with it all! So lots going on currently and looking forward very much to get back into creation mode and create new music, but the pieces of the puzzle had to be set in place again for me to make it worthwhile and viable to keep creating music.

Message to fans and readers?

Night Wolf: Thank you for those that have stuck around and listened to my work from old to new there are a few of you out there, thank you to everyone that has listened to our songs together and we really do hope to be able to interact with people and find those out there that want to listen to something a little different. There is a lot about to happen with our channels on social media as well as YouTube content and we hope you enjoy reading a little about us behind the scenes. Cheers! @NightWolfUK – www.nightwolfuk.com

Lois Powell: Thanks for listening to my music. I am always really curious about details, little details and endless curiosity. If you send me a message about anything you particularly liked I would be very curious.

Unstoppable captures Night Wolf and Lois Powell at their most intuitive — a cinematic, emotionally charged collaboration that builds from broken fragility to soaring strength

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