Tyler Posey is no stranger to transformations. He’s played a teen werewolf, slashed his way through Scream, and fronted punk bands in between acting gigs. But with his new album Unravel, Posey sheds all expectations—including his own—and leans fully into being a genre-fluid, emotionally raw, independently operating musical shapeshifter.
“It just kind of unraveled out of me,” he says, with equal parts relief and pride. “There wasn’t really a plan. I didn’t go in thinking, ‘This is the concept.’ I just wrote.”
Posey’s last EP Drugs was rooted in the wake of getting sober. It was direct, personal, and cathartic. But Unravel, he says, isn’t a sequel so much as a release. “Drugs was very linear—it was about a specific part of my life,” he says. “Unravel is way more experimental. Every song feels like a different genre, a different mood. But it still all fits together, at least to me.”
And it’s all DIY. After working with producer John Feldmann and his Big Noise label for several years, Posey decided to go fully independent. “I wanted to know what it felt like to be fully in control,” he says. “To do everything myself. No input from anyone else. It’s nostalgic—it reminds me of when I was twelve making flyers and passing them out at concerts. But it’s also brutal.”
Brutal, but freeing. Unravel includes 16 tracks, five of which were co-produced by Feldmann from earlier sessions, and the rest with producer Matt Malpass. “There are songs on here that are three or four years old, and they still feel right,” he says. “The sound’s evolved, but the feeling’s the same.”
The album’s latest single, “Gravity,” was written with singer-songwriter femme—who is now Posey’s partner. It began as a cosmic metaphor for alienation and evolved into a love song about being tethered to someone who makes Earth feel a little less lonely.
“I was in a dark place when I wrote it,” he says. “There’s so much I want to do to help this planet, to evolve as a person. But it’s exhausting. Sometimes you just want to leave. And then I met someone who made staying feel worth it.”
Naturally, they wrote the song together.
“Most couples have a song. Ours is literally our song,” he laughs.
Another highlight is “Lemon,” a goth-tinged, end-credit banger from Teen Wolf: The Movie, which Posey also starred in. “I told them I’d do the movie if I could put a song in it,” he says. “I didn’t expect they’d give me the last song. The end-credit song is sacred, you know?”
“Lemon” is big, theatrical, moody. Marilyn Manson meets The Cure. There’s screaming. There’s bullhorn vocal effects. It’s a departure—but one that fits Posey surprisingly well. “The alt-goth sound? Yeah. I think I want to lean into that more,” he says. “There’s definitely more of it on the album.”
For a guy who once wore the Ghostface mask in Scream, and now gets to write post-hardcore ballads for his werewolf alter ego, there’s something fitting about this cinematic musical direction.
But don’t mistake Unravel for a vanity project. Posey’s fandom runs deep—so deep that he once yelled “Teen Wolf 2!” at Jason Bateman during a Teen Choice Awards silence. (“He looked like he wanted to rip my throat out,” Posey recalls, gleefully.)
He wants more Teen Wolf. More legacy projects. More chances to play in worlds that meant something to him growing up. But also, more opportunities to add his own stamp—like Unravel, which he insists is best listened to in sequence. “It’s a ride,” he says. “It starts heavy and ends with this really cinematic acoustic track. The order matters.”
He’s not rushing into touring. The album comes first, then maybe acting, then maybe the road. “It’s tricky balancing both careers,” he says. “But the fans want it. And I want it. So we’ll figure it out.”
For now, Unravel is Posey at his most Posey: vulnerable, genre-bending, a little bit punk, a little bit emo, and 100% in control.
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