The Beauty Of It All, Monolink’s eagerly anticipated third studio album, is released via Embassy One.

Across ten sublime originals, the Berlin-based artist offers a deeply personal journey shaped by introspection, texture, and restraint, pulling you inward and unfolding slowly with emotional honesty and melodic finesse, marking a return to the core of what makes Monolink’s work resonate with emotional clarity, melodic warmth, and a perfect symbiosis of the organic and the electronic. 

Written largely in retreat from the world, the album isn’t interested in spectacle; instead, it explores the push and pull of joy and pain, memory and motion, stillness and change, crafting something that feels deeply lived-in—less a concept album and more a series of inner monologues framed through sound. It begins in quiet devastation with “Call of the Void,” a spacious and sorrowful opener that paints the emotional wreckage of a love lost, leaning into restraint rather than release, with rich vocals and expansive synths giving space for grief to breathe and transform. 

From there, the record pivots into a different kind of tension with “Perfect World,” where broken rhythms and glitchy percussion mirror the detachment of modern life, co-written with Severin Kantereit and feeling observational and detached, like a slow zoom-out on a city waking up. As the album deepens, familiar pieces of Monolink’s sound surface in unexpected forms; “Powerful Play” reconnects with his roots, blending acoustic guitar with rhythmic electronics in a nod to the hybrid energy of his early days when he busked on Berlin’s streets by day and discovered its clubs by night.

There are moments of near-total surrender to sonic exploration, with “Avalanche,” partly written in the Swiss Alps and partly born in a jam session with collaborator Toby Siebert, a patient build of vintage synths and quiet emotional turbulence, and the same chemistry is captured in “In My Place,” a one-take recording that wears its imperfections like texture, alive with spontaneous energy you can’t manufacture. 

The contrast continues on “Mesmerized,” a standout track where analog drum pulses form the foundation for something more introspective, with swirling textures, spiraling melodies, and one of the strongest toplines of his career. If the album is about embracing the full spectrum of feeling, “Promised Land” dives headfirst into the unknown, influenced by the freeform experimentation of Pink Floyd, unfolding slowly with layers of hand-played percussion and spacious chords giving it the feel of a lucid dream or a long night’s drive. Later, “Beacon” brings things back to earth, written on piano and rooted in folk sensibilities as one of the most hopeful moments on the record—reflective, light-filled, and quietly uplifting. 

There’s a sense of rediscovery in the LP’s next offering, “Phoenix,” which originated years ago on a synth brought to Portugal and later reworked into its final analog form, a track about creative sparks that refuse to die even after time and distance. The record closes with “Once I Understood,” a song that begins like a Beatles ballad and morphs into something uniquely Monolink—part lullaby, part existential reflection, part release. The Beauty Of It All is a record that doesn’t just document where Monolink is now, it maps out where he’s come from; over the past decade, Steffen Linck has carved a singular path as a producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and live performer, and his ability to merge traditional storytelling with modern sound design has earned him a rare position at the intersection of club culture and concert stages, with a global following spanning both. 

While his debut Amniotic (2018) introduced a genre-fluid fusion of organic and electronic elements and Under Darkening Skies (2021) expanded that vision with darker, more cinematic tones, The Beauty Of It All feels like a distillation and a moment of clarity—less concerned with scale, more focused on resonance, and more than anything, it feels true. Monolink’s new album The Beauty Of It All is out now via Embassy One on vinyl, CD, and digital formats.

Listen to the tracks below.