Tollan Kim has used his music to soundtrack TikTok, racking up billions of views and millions of posts. After a two-year absence, the quiet producer behind “Aesthetic” returns with a new 21-track album, “Tired at 21”.
This is a strange fact. There’s a music producer whose work has been viewed more than 700 billion times on TikTok, and most people wouldn’t recognize his name from the list.
That’s Toland King. The gap between the grandeur of the music and the unknownness of the man is basically the whole story.
You heard about him. The song “Aesthetic” produced by kudasaibeats is the unofficial soundtrack of TikTok in 2022. More than 10 million posts use it. It’s underneath the cooking videos, learning clips, and all those slow morning routines. This song is very famous. There are not that many people who created it. He likes it.
He doesn’t show his face. Not doing the loud creator routine. What is actually disclosed is rather weak. Born in Brazil, now living in South Korea, his stage name is Lucas. That’s it. His message is to be kind and do things that help people relax. There is no big brand behind him and no marketing machine. The track moves on its own.
You can follow him here: Tollan Kim on Instagram
So how does a quiet person get numbers out loud? Honestly, the music just does the trick. It happens during those parts of your day where you’re not really paying attention but you can still feel it. Clean, study, relax. He consistently ranks in the top 10 of TikTok’s Global Viral 50, doing just that, which for a calm instrumental beat with no vocals, is a bit ridiculous when you think about it.
Then he was quiet. It’s been two years and no new work has been released. It was a strange move for a producer riding such a wave that many thought was the end.
This is not the case.
He returns with a 21-song album, Tired at 21. That’s a lot of music that should be thrown away in two years. The lead single was “Aesthetic Garden”, also known as “Garden Aesthetic”. It has the soft, slow feel of his previous work, but there’s a lot more depth beneath it. People have always called him the “King of Lo-fi.” He prefers to call it “aesthetic music,” which is his own genre, and the framework makes sense once you listen to some of the tracks. It lives in lo-fi, but isn’t quite lo-fi.
The point is, the most talked about producer that almost no one can name is back, and he’s back with a lot to say.
Start with the single and let the album take off from there:
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