Nate Todd’s Album “Tellus”: A Sci-Fi Odyssey About a Dying Planet and the Darkness Created

With “Tellus,” Denver artist Nate Todd completes a decade-long, genre-bending trilogy, and he does so with his most urgent and fearless release yet. The 12-track album steps boldly into the realm of sci-fi, using synthesizers, cinematic textures, and electronic grit to stare down the planet’s harsh and rapidly approaching future. If Crystal Hotel explored the past through westerns and Empty City held a noir mirror to the present, Tellus rockets into the future only to show us something painfully familiar: humanity still destroying the only home it has.

Todd’s storytelling is as sharp as the production. Inspired by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, classic sci-fi, and Asimov-style futurism, he builds a solar-system-spanning narrative where greed, power, and carelessness thrive long after Earth has become nearly unrecognizable. The title track, “Tellus,” hits especially hard as a love letter to a dying planet and a warning written in cosmic dust. It’s poetic, eerie, and grounded in emotional truth.

Rather than hiding behind metaphor, Todd leans into the uncomfortable. Climate collapse, political absurdity, and society’s ongoing failures pulse through every synth line and distorted rhythm. Yet the album remains deeply human. Even in the vast emptiness of Todd’s imagined universe, there’s hope, memory, and a stubborn refusal to stop caring.

With “Tellus,” Nate Todd delivers not just the final chapter of his conceptual trilogy but also his most compelling artistic statement to date, cinematic, immersive, and tragically reflective of our real-world trajectory.

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