There’s a moment in “Pull Me Under” where the beat stops trying to seduce you and simply takes you. The groove locks in, the ambient textures rise, and Nova Wolf ‘s vocals — low, insistent, honest — repeat like a mantra you didn’t ask to memorize: You pull me under, you take me over. By the time you’ve registered what’s happening, you’re already gone.
That’s the point.
The Canadian artist and producer — formerly known as Lil Wolf — arrives at this single carrying a résumé built entirely in other people’s spotlights. JUNO Award-winning credits. Engineering work alongside multi-GRAMMY-winning producer Thom Russo. Studio contributions with MIDI Mafia, whose fingerprints are on records by 50 Cent, Frank Ocean, and Justin Bieber. Scoring work on Dexter, Silent Hill, and the video game Dishonored. Years of making other artists sound like the best version of themselves.
Now he’s doing it for himself.
“The evolution from Lil Wolf to Nova Wolf feels like the next step in my journey — burning away the past, embracing the light, and chasing the stars,” he explains.
“Pull Me Under” follows his Nomad Tapes EP series — globe-spanning projects recorded across Africa and Bali — and a collaborative record with DJ Shaman. Where those releases wore their geography openly, this single goes inward. The territory here is desire: surrender, intimacy, the magnetic pull of another person.
The production is patient, meticulous, built for the moment a room shifts and everyone stops talking and just moves. For someone who has spent years understanding what makes a record work from the inside out, that’s not an accident.
It’s the whole idea.
