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Easter eggs Hidden tracks Recording lore Dead wax messages Production secrets Album mythology Artist confessions Buried samples The stories behind the songs Easter eggs Hidden tracks Recording lore Dead wax messages Production secrets Album mythology Artist confessions Buried samples The stories behind the songs
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The lore inside the lyrics

The word that should have always existed, for the thing that was always there.

Lorics / ˈlɔːrɪks /
adjective · noun · archive
From loric, an existing English adjective meaning “pertaining to or characterised by lore”, fused with lyrics, the language of music. Lorics is the hidden architecture that lives inside a record — the stories, secrets and buried truths that change what you hear when you press play.
loric · pertaining to lore lyrics · the language of music lore · knowledge, mythology, truth
What this is

Every great album is an iceberg. What most people hear is the surface: the singles, the choruses, the obvious. Lorics exists for everything below the waterline.

The sample nobody cleared. The lyric that took eight months to write. The hidden track after ten minutes of silence. The feud that nearly killed the record. The easter egg the producer left for anyone patient enough to find it.

What's coming

Deep reads on the albums that changed everything. An archive of thousands of easter eggs, dead wax messages and buried samples. Lore drops that reframe songs you've heard a hundred times. A visual language where every album page looks and feels like the record it lives inside.

Why it matters

Knowing the lore doesn't break the magic. It deepens it. Every hidden detail you discover sends you back to the music with new ears. Lorics is not the destination. The music is. Lorics just changes what you hear when you get there.

Part of a network

Lorics sits alongside The Emotion Pictures — films catalogued by the emotions they leave behind. Two archives. One philosophy. Art deserves to be experienced at full depth.

The real story of what was happening in the room, in the relationship, in the world — when the music was being made.

Easter egg archive
Thousands of buried discoveries across the history of recorded music
Album deep reads
Every page styled in the palette of the record it lives inside
Lore drops
One discovery. One song. Changed forever.