Composer-producer Paul Louis Villani release new single “Can I Be Your Secret?”

Melbourne-based composer-producer Paul Louis Villani has broken from his meticulously planned 2025 trilogy to unleash a one-off single, “Can I Be Your Secret?” Written and recorded in a single overnight session, the track captures the instant when a delicate confession collides with raw distortion.

“At 2 a.m. a riff hit that felt too urgent for the schedule,” Villani says. “The song is the sound of beauty and chaos slamming together at full velocity—so I hit record and followed it wherever it went.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Paul Louis Villani writes the kind of songs that arrive like late-night confessions; half whisper, half sound barrier penetration. Based in Melbourne, the guitarist-composer folds industrial-strength drop-C riffs, cinematic atmospheres, and razor-edge storytelling into a dense three-minute burst built for both headphones and festival PAs.

2025 sees Villani completing his self-produced trilogy—a year-long arc that began with 2025 1.0, deepened through The Internationals, and now culminates in the new single “Can I Be Your Secret.” Clocking in at 3 min 03, the track is a cataclysmic eruption that detonates into a chorus engineered to make every neck hair stand at attention. Lyrically, Villani trades in vulnerability cut with menace: vampiric desire, fractured bonds, the question nobody dares ask out loud.

Away from the studio, Paul is an Emergency Compliance professional, a photographer / digital artist, and a junior-cricket coach. These roles have sharpen his sense of high-stakes drama and community. Those worlds collide in his music: precise, disciplined, yet always one spark away from chaos. With each release Villani is the composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, favouring raw takes over studio polish. The result has landed him community-radio rotation, playlist adds from niche metal curators to left-field indie tastemakers, and an audience that stretches from Norway’s fjords to Australia’s dive bars.