For ALIUS, the mission is pop music with depth. Melbourne’s Sebastian Ivanov crafts songs that blend uplifting melodies and razor-sharp production with lyrics written straight from the heart: no matter the beat, no matter the sound, his music is real, relatable and honest. A lifelong musician, Ivanov is a talented triple-threat who produces, songwrites and sings. After a few busy years of pouring himself into song, his solo project ALIUS is hitting all the right notes. Original tracks like ‘Caught Up’, ‘Fraction’ and ‘Impossible To Love You’ have already clocked up over 45 million streams on Spotify alone, while his remake of the Dawson’s Creek theme song ‘I Don’t Wanna Wait’ was picked for the Ministry of Sound Summer Anthems release, spending several weeks in the top 10 of the iTunes charts. The music of ALIUS taps into a wide range of human experiences: friendships, family, aspirations, expectations, hope and disappointment. “With ALIUS, it’s about the experience of life,” Sebastian says. “It’s not just about the whole love thing, or hate, or partying. It’s about the complications of life, its contrasts and what it’s all about. It’s an expression of the stories that I’ve gone through and I feel as though other people have gone through as well”. The result is music that will make you feel as much as it makes you move. Take a listen and dive into the inner workings of ALIUS.