Nicole Marxen is a Dallas-based musician and visual artist. Known as one of the shiny dark innovators behind acclaimed avant-garde pop band Midnight Opera, she made her solo debut in 2021 with Tether.

Tether is a meditation on the grieving process. Recorded at John Congleton's studio, Elmwood, with Alex Bhore (composer of Halo Infinite Multiplayer) and mastered by Greg Calbi, it explores grief through the lens of a crystal—multifaceted among jagged and lustrous planes.