Hear Rival Sons Guitarist Scott Holiday's New Song 'Autonomatic'

08-24-2026

(PMPR) "AUTONOMATIC" is the fuzz-drenched new single from Rival Sons guitarist Scott Holiday's solo project HOL1D4Y. "Autonomatic: It's a word I came up with by combining the words: autonomy and automatic," states Holiday. "Autonomatic: The built in or intrinsic desire for autonomy."

"AUTONOMATIC talks about our changing relationships with machines" states Holiday "How we might, at this point in history, use them to complete tasks and assist us with creativity. Maybe even help us socially, but especially with A.I, technology is progressing so rapidly it is so much more than a tool to finish an essay for us.

"If machines truly start to make decisions and 'think' for themselves...the natural progression could be that it will want to be like us in the deepest ways it can understand. We are free. We are autonomous. I think that this will be a natural evolution for a free thinking hyper intelligent entity. Autonomy. Built in autonomy. Hence the idea: they are Autonomatic."

Holiday announced that his solo album "TOPOLOGY" will be released September 25th earlier this year. Recorded and self-produced in his home studio Topology represents complete creative independence. The genesis of the project was partly shaped by a disastrous bike crash at the end of last year, when everything stopped. Just minutes from home, Holiday was struck by a car while riding his bike home after an evening with friends. He has no memory of the collision. The accident left him with six broken ribs, a shoulder injury, a head injury, and months of recovery. Unable to move but still thinking creatively, Holiday kept developing the unfinished pieces in his mind. A few compositions remained instrumental; but the rest started asking for lyrics.

"What surprised me was that they stopped feeling like instrumental pieces," Holiday says. "They seemed prepped for a story. Once I realized that, the words came quickly. That's when I knew it was time to step into this new role - I needed to be the one to tell these stories."