Released on December 20, 2025, Lost My Way Home marks a powerful turning point for Night Wolf, both creatively and personally. Known for his cinematic, trip-hop, and alternative soundscapes, Night Wolf finds an unexpected yet deeply resonant counterpart in Lois Powell, whose haunting, ethereal vocals bring a raw emotional gravity to the track. Built on themes of acceptance, resilience, and self-reckoning, the song feels intimate and unguarded, shaped by late-night honesty rather than polish.
The single also carries wider significance. It is the first release on EscaVolt Records, Night Wolf’s newly founded label, and his first full collaboration since returning to the UK. Recorded in his home studio, Lost My Way Home captures a moment of transition, not just for the artists involved, but for the creative direction ahead. What follows is an in-depth conversation with Night Wolf and Lois Powell about chance encounters, vulnerability, independence, and the beginnings of a long-term creative partnership.
Interview with Night Wolf and Lois Powell
NW: I am always on the look out, or ears out for mainly female singers to work with as you would tell from my back catalogue , I find the female voice just works very well with the sound I have in my head and final product, and during this time I was out looking for a different kind of voice that had power and was able to have restraint as well, I knew how I wanted the song sound but Lois was able to take my ideas and make them her own. A lot of the time, when I have met musicians or singer/songwriters on open mic nights they do not get back to me about working together but Lois did and I was very happy to get her voice onto my style of music I enjoy making. She is very unique-sounding and brings emotion to her vocal work with out trying. I do not use auto tune on any of my work as I like the rawness and natural sound, Lois certainly does not need any auto-tune on her voice. She was very open to the idea of working on music and that shows as we ended up creating 4 songs in a relatively short space of time.
NW: Lost My Way Home is a reflection of my own life during the time of writing it, I have been in long relationships since high school and after the world shut down and I came back to the UK , it was the first time in a long time I have been alone, I felt like I was stuck but in my own making, I felt like I had suddenly grown up and had no one was left around me to see the new me, I felt like I had became angry at the world and myself and did not like the person I was becoming, it is about not giving up at the lowest point but accepting you are there, accepting you may have wondered of the path you had mentally made for yourself but with enough hope left to try and climb out of the self made hole. I had also just started to rebuild my home studio during this time so it actually encapsulates this raw energy and recording the vocals through a Rode NT1 and untreated room certainly made the quality of the recording not as I had hoped for, but after a few mixes I was happy with how it sat and felt like Lois was in the room.
This song was our first collaboration together and it was great to know I had found Lois with her voice being such a good fit for what I was trying to achieve with a feeling, instrumentals are great but vocals really tell the missing story so there is not so much you have to make up yourself.
LP: From ages 0-9 I was thriving. And then everything went tragically wrong. And at some point around age 18, things got better. I was no longer in the thick of it. But still lost. Lost my way home was realising that. There’s a difference between being sick, being fine and thriving.
Lost my way home was the realization I needed to have to go from being fine to thriving. From living to choosing life.
NW: I will remain professional and not name any names, but the publishers I was releasing music with on an exclusive basis had not really kept to their side of the contract, although I am thankful for the many placements I did get via them, there was no artist input from me in artwork or promotion with even the release date never confirmed on each release leaving me unable to ever try to promote the albums release date. There were many other issues that I wont go into here but after a sudden change in management and a breakdown in communication, instead of releasing my albums numbered 10 + 11 with them , I decided to part ways and release my works myself and promote it how I wanted too in past with countdowns and actively working to make a presence in the music scene rather than being in the background as I have been for many years. I am continuing to push the music I create for synch work and placements and am looking at possibility’s to create a show and invite the artists I work with to preform but this will EscaVolt Records, I will use this to re launch my want to be more in the public eye and have real feedback and a connection with those that enjoy it, I have only just claimed all my artists profiles on streaming platforms and YouTube so this whole process has allowed me to take control of my name so to say and rebrand and move on from the Italian publishers, it was the right time to start again, this time taking the years of experience I had earned being with them and my ever growing list of credits and placements and do it myself moving forward, and better! I am now fully independent and It feels like I am starting again in an exciting way with full control of how I present myself, so there are many lessons to still learn but such is life.
The albums are still available for use in productions and open for placements/use via my website and the publishers.
NW: If you go back through my back catalogue you will notice that I skip around genres and never settle into one, not sure if that is a good or bad thing for continuity, however I just create music that I enjoy in the moment and it normally just reflects how I felt whilst creating it, but I do try to not stick in the same zone for each song and have been wanting for a long time to branch out again into more cinematic pieces but this time not focus just on instrumentals and bring a story to life with lyrics, for our future works together as a duo me and Lois, she co wrote lyrics for Death Of The Wolf and then took the lead on the next two songs after and I had no input on the lyrics other than the arrangement. I have been writing lyrics since I was young and it just so happened that when I had found Lois singing in the pub that night, I had recorded myself singing it and reminded myself, I can not sing, brining Lois onto this project brought my idea to life and moulded it into her own.
NW: Yes very much so, In Budapest where the studio I co-rented was, it was above a popular bar/club that was also a well known music venue that had everything from local acts to well known acts playing most nights, it was very easy to meet people in the bar area that either wrote or created music and the circle I was in had a lot of poets, so it was easy to end up in the studio late at night with random people and just creating, all be it that most of what I was creating at this time was very experimental and I only ever released a few of the works I collaborated with during this time. It took me a few years to get back what I wanted for equipment and software after the closing of the studio so this was a very special moment for me to be able to finally invite an artist round to work together on music like this. I am very good at seemingly becoming more of a hermit as I get older so being able to meet singers and artists when I’m out in the world is something I still work on.
NW: For me, vulnerability is the strength, I don’t try to dress the dark moments up or soften them , I let them exist honestly in my writing so I would say the balance comes in the intention behind it. I’m not making music to sit in despair and dwell on my mistakes, I’m making it to move through it so that gives the lyrics some tension and weight in the verses, then space or some lift/ momentum where acceptance and resilience start to take over which again Lois was very good at bringing to the song without me having to explain it, she was able to bring that emotion to the song. As a producer, I’m very deliberate about that contrast with stripped-back moments where the emotion is exposed and raw which again fitted with the undesirable microphone and recording conditions for this fist song, followed by sections that feel grounded and forward-moving. I think it mirrors real life, you acknowledge the darkness, but you don’t let it define the ending or you as a person.
LP: Vulnerability is strength. The strength to admit your true feelings no matter how dark. To share with the world, and allow others to feel accepted going through the same thing.
LP: During the time I sang this, I was going through a breakup. And having a dreadful realization about the last 2 years and the ordeal I had put myself through. Only after creating the song did the lyrics begin to shine through. And I actually found it uncanny how me and Night Wolf’s experiences were synching lyrically. As I was singing, I was just experiencing my emotional landscape at the time – pain and loss and disillusionment.
This was the first ‘hip’ song I had made, a lot of focus was just in trying to actually sing it and get my syllables in place. But subconsciously the emotional tone was coming through. Something that now makes sense to me now. The words make sense to me almost as if I wrote them. At the time I struggled to connect to the lyrics – so glad it’s come through for me now.
NW: I feel like we learnt a lot about each other and our boundaries and how we work when in creative mode on this first song, the songs after Lost My Way Home became all most like we had known each other for years and were very much locked into a shared vision even if we did not see it until it appeared, we have not sat going over melodies or instrument choice etc , lost my way home was the only song we worked on together that was, instrumentally complete before adding the lyrics so the other songs after as a duo really had more of a flow in creativity and allowed Lois more freedom to bring her own interpretations to the mood and story of the lyrics she wrote. It allowed us to learn about each other musically and has allowed for us to know by this point how to get the best out of each other when collaborating on music from scratch, we intend to continue to work together and explore what we can bring to the music world. Since the first song I got my set up at home sorted and this has allowed for a more solid base.
We will continue to learn about each other and continue to create some great music together that is for sure.
LP- We quickly realised we needed to up the quality. The microphone. I also wanted more input on the lyrics. And wanted to vocalise – I was thrilled about the vocalisation/ harmonies we got to create on death of the wolf. Unhinged.
NW: I have always written music with visuals in mind even when I was not consciously trying to, a lot of what I create comes from scenes I can almost see playing out as the track develops, I can take how I am feeling and then add a layer of how it would be seen or played out in a video. Lost My Way Home feels like a moment that would sit very naturally in film or TV during a transition or turning point for a character, that quiet space where something has ended but the next chapter has not fully begun yet. It is not a song that demands attention, it supports the emotion of the scene and lets the visuals breathe while still carrying weight underneath. I can imagine it working well in scenes dealing with isolation, reflection, regret or acceptance, whether that is someone driving at night, walking alone through a city, or even a game moment where the player is given time to pause and process what has just happened, it could also fit well with a reborn again moment or a character developing and moving past a trauma
Because the song builds without being overbearing it gives editors room to work with it, leaving space rather than filling every second and working with silence as part of the story telling is something I enjoy to do in my recent works more. Ultimately I see the song living alongside a story rather than leading it, helping underline a feeling without telling the audience what to think, which is where I think music works best in visual media.
The shows will come later but of course we would not turn down any offers to preform our music!
LP: I can see this song in virtually any intense scene. Maybe a greyscale, something has just gone terribly wrong, or a character has a realisation. The song plays as the character goes on a journey of self discovery.
NW: Things are seemingly on the up and I am very proud of the new direction that I am taking in my career and as an artist, it is great to feel in the past that things I did not want to do in the background , the things that take away from actually making the music but are very much necessary more so as an independent artist then ever before that need to be done, well need to be done! I am taking control as mentioned before over my destiny so to say and have used my experience to propel myself in the right direction. I am currently working on the last version of my end user agreements and contracts for my website and own sale/lease of my unreleased music for synch and visual media opportunities and updating my artist website – www.nightwolfuk.com
where you will be able to preview and make enquires to use my back catalogue and new works as they come fresh! I am also in process of creating a new sound effect and foley company called No Paw Audio which will be releasing its first sound packs in 2026 as well as conteFods called Kickback which will also release on EscaVolt Records and a rapper from USA called Radio Razeem and False Followers which is currently being re-recorded.
Me and Lois intend to keep on working with each other and continue to create music that we can both be proud of releasing and intend to work hard on making a name for ourselves this year and stepping into the spotlight more to promote our works, we intend to finish our first album as a duo. Keep an eye out for our music videos coming for each of our releases together on YouTube and our social media @NightWolfUK and @LoisPowellMusic.
We hope you follow along with our musical journey and we appreciate everyone who takes the time to listen to our work, there is so much more to come! Thank you for the interview.
LP: I’m always happy to be creating. Give me a mic and I’ll sing.
Lost My Way Home feels less like a debut collaboration and more like the start of an ongoing dialogue between two artists unafraid of emotional exposure. As Night Wolf steps fully into independence and Lois Powell continues to carve out her own hauntingly honest space, this partnership hints at something deeper still unfolding.
