Melaina Kol, the alias of Nashville musician Logan Hornyak, is excited to share their new album, Okay that’s a great idea because if I do that then, out now via Julia’s War Recordings. Across nine tracks, Hornyak trades in his usual guitar-and-pedal for cello, harp, and piano. These are instruments that he taught himself specifically for this record.

Hornyak built the songs by looping and chopping live takes rather than sequencing samples, then handed vocal duties almost entirely to Olivia O of Lowertown, and then sliced and rearranged those recordings until they sounded “more textural than lyrical”. Other contributors included Cory Halterman on live piano, Husam Suboh and Zach Tittel on percussion and bass, Luna Kupper of Total Wife on guitar, Alex Dunn on bass, and Ash Richter of Total Wife lending an additional vocal feature to opener “Bleater.”

The album’s textures “emulate loss, isolation, and healing love in the most crushing of times.” 

Logan says of the new record:

‘Okay that’s a great idea because if do that then’ to me is about looking through a looking glass towards the shore on both toes while someone from the other room is yelling violently at an inanimate object that is impervious to the person yelling at it because it is an inanimate object.

Melaina Kol has shared stages with artists like Squirrel Flower, Her New Knife, Teethe, and more. Recently, he previewed new material at SXSW 2026.