v02 · case-study-style
Lumen Records · 2026
The Aurora Tapes
An album launch site that earned 4:32 of average attention.
Challenge
Make a page that holds attention for the length of a track.
The marketing benchmark for album sites is ~30 seconds. Lumen wanted ten minutes. The problem was less design and more cinematography.
Approach
Treat the page as a timeline, not a document.
Aurora drove the motion. Every scene had a soft attack and a long decay, choreographed to the album's pacing. Surfaces shifted with each chapter, never jolting.
Solution
One sticky-scrub scene per track.
Track-titles materialised from grain. Cover art breathed in time with the bpm. No autoplay — sound was opt-in via a single floating chip that travelled with the listener.
Results
4:32 median session — 9× the benchmark.
4:32
Median session
+340%
Stream-throughs
9.4/10
Press sentiment