Origins

Dan and Charles met at 15 in North Carolina and began writing together as teenagers, long before The Impliers formally existed. Their early collaboration grew out of a shared instinct for melody, mood, and experimentation, and that long creative history still gives the project unusual continuity across its music, visuals, and live work.

Multimedia Universe

The Impliers emerged in 2022 with their debut album, Cocoon, alongside a broader self-produced multimedia rollout that included surreal music videos, an award-winning comedic infomercial, and an immersive online presence, signaling from the start that the project extended far beyond music alone. Musically, Cocoon brought that vision into focus through indie guitar rock, electro-pop, piano-led balladry, and darker wave-influenced textures, all in service of songs about relationships, mortality, psychological strain, and emotional contradiction. The release established the project as emotionally unguarded, visually ambitious, and unwilling to stay confined to a single sonic or artistic lane.

What separates The Impliers most is the way each release functions as part of a larger world. Their work extends beyond records into psychedelic music videos, surreal short films, sketch comedy, and live multimedia performance. That broader vision came into especially sharp focus with Mixed Messages, a 90-minute multimedia experience combining sketch comedy, original music videos, and surreal storytelling in a meticulously produced format that blurred the line between stage, screen, and sound. Structured like a trip through strange TV channels, the show gradually revealed a deeper story about connection, communication, and the emotional patterns people fall into but rarely talk about.

That larger scope has also been recognized publicly. Birdy Magzine described the impliers as a “self-taught, self-produced multimedia entity and concept band,” while OnStage called Mixed Messages an “ambitious” project that blends film and live performance in a “novel theatrical format.” The project’s visual and multidisciplinary work has also earned multiple Telly Awards, along with recognition from the Denver 48 Hour Film Festival. 

Mixed Messages & Beyond

Now, the project is entering its next chapter with The Magic Pt. 1, an album centered on romantic love. Where Cocoon often lived in dread, tension, and inward collapse, the newer material opens into movement, desire, humor, vulnerability, and the contradictions that come with intimacy. At the same time, The Impliers is expanding its larger narrative world through an episodic digital adaptation of Mixed Messages, a feature film in development, and another live experience currently in the works.