Recovering Athlete by Ryan The Son

This is music you can sweat to — and words you can grow through.

This album is not just music — it’s an unflinching look at what happens when an athlete’s journey ends before the dream does. A Time to Feel carries the weight of that ending and the ways Ryan tried to fill the void: through degrees, religion, and corporate titles. Yet beneath all of it lived battles too heavy to ignore.

Track by track, you’ll hear resilience tested, peeled away until only grief, sorrow, and the small voice of an inner child longing for safety remain. The haikus of Julia Lauren (a.k.a. KANSO) whisper throughout like gentle guides, bridging words and sound into a map of transformation.

Above all, A Time to Feel is permission: permission to stop holding your feelings in pause, and instead press play. Because it’s always okay to press play.

Ex-athlete energy meets anime & gaming nerd vibes in Ryan The Son’s Blindie ® music, from waking up with melodies in his head to going semi-viral on TikTok with “Human In Me,” he’s building a whole new universe of expression, one song at a time.

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