01/16/2026
Welcome to the Transparent Media family, floodlit.
Floodlit is a new post hardcore band with a heart to share stories that matter.
“AKo” means older brother in Burmese.
Written by vocalist Elijah Kellogg, this song is told from the perspective of someone forced into soldierhood as a child. Someone who learned how to survive long before they ever learned how to love.
He longs to care for his own people, but after a lifetime of being ordered to harm them, he no longer knows how.
This story is not fiction. Forced child conscription is a form of human trafficking and has shaped the lives of tens of thousands of children in Myanmar alone.
This song is for them.
AKo is out now.
