Independent Arts News Reporting Announcing Altar of Tomorrow - The Label Debut from Hustlekat and Ynes Mon
Reported on Friday, January 9, 2026
Pictured Above: Atlar of Tomorrow. Photo Credit: Adam Garcia.
NEWSROOM POST: NATIONAL
February 5, 2026 Is the Official Digital release of Altar of Tomorrow
National – Curious Music is very pleased to announce Altar of Tomorrow, the label debut from Hustlekat and Ynes Mon. The record brings together two distinct musical approaches—one rooted in instrumental performance and long-form composition, the other shaped through studio process, texture, and spatial listening.
Altar of Tomorrow takes shape through close listening and shared restraint. Hustlekat’s work draws from a classical and orchestral discipline—attention to bow pressure, phrasing, register, and balance—carried into an environment where those values are gently expanded. Ynes Mon approaches sound from within the studio itself, treating microphones, signal paths, and processing as compositional tools. One practice begins in physical gesture and resonance in the room; the other focuses on how sound behaves once captured, layered, and transformed.
Developed in Los Angeles through an open-ended studio dialogue, Altar of Tomorrow treats composition as a continuous act rather than a sequence of finished statements.
The opening track, “Methuselah,” released as the album’s first single, establishes the record’s core vocabulary—setting tone, scale, and pace—before ideas are gradually extended and recontextualized across the album. Later, the sixth track, “Legend of the Hill,” articulates one of the work’s most expansive melodic and spatial ideas.
The seventh track is a remix of “Legend of the Hill,” created in collaboration with Peter Chilvers, whose long-standing work with Brian Eno has helped define a lineage of generative and ambient music. Rather than functioning as a conventional remix, the piece extends the source material forward—preserving its harmonic and spatial core while allowing texture, pacing, and emphasis to evolve.
This sense of onward movement—of music refusing to settle—is central to the album’s identity.
Pictured Above: Altar of Tomorrow artists. Photo Credit: Adam Garcia.
About Hustlekat (Stephanie Yu)
Hustlekat is the recording project of Stephanie Yu, a Los Angeles–based violinist and composer whose work draws from classical tradition while engaging contemporary and experimental sound practices. Trained at The Juilliard School, where she earned both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees, Yu brings an orchestral and chamber sensibility into studio-based and collaborative settings.
Her performance career spans venues including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and Berghain, and includes work with ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. She is also an in-demand studio musician, recording with composers for film, television, and games, and appearing on sessions with artists including Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Stevie Wonder, Sigur Rós, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Elfman, and The Who.
Altar of Tomorrow marks her debut full-length release as Hustlekat, presenting her violin practice within a broader compositional and studio-driven framework.
About Ynes Mon (Collin Davis)
Ynes Mon is the recording project of Collin Davis, a Los Angeles–based musician, producer, and sound artist whose work moves fluidly across ambient, experimental, rock, and hip-hop forms. A Grammy Award–winning engineer at Stones Throw Studios, Davis has collaborated with artists including Laraaji, Sudan Archives, Anderson .Paak, and Knxwledge, while maintaining a parallel practice focused on experimental composition and sound design.
Davis approaches the studio as both instrument and environment, shaping material through careful attention to space, signal flow, and perception. He is the co-founder of Evidence Based Music, a label and research initiative exploring the relationship between sound, consciousness, and emotional regulation. As Ynes Mon, his work emphasizes continuity, process, and subtle transformation—principles central to Altar of Tomorrow.
