A once-obscure Scottish musician, Steven Hall, has been catapulted to critical acclaim in his late sixties after decades of unreleased music surfaced as the double album My Skyscraper, released under his stage name Nirosta Steel. Compiling songs recorded between 1984 and 2025 and blending disco, folk, synth-pop, Chinese opera and choral music, the record has drawn glowing reviews, including Pitchfork calling it "an archival triumph and one of the year's most thrilling new releases." The story matters as another example of a historically overlooked artist being rediscovered decades later, this time propelled by unexpected enthusiasm from younger listeners.

The album emerged after a label boss, impressed by Nirosta Steel's 2014 record Cool Fire, asked Hall whether he had further material, prompting him to hand over dozens of unreleased songs spanning four decades. Hall, who had been getting by driving for Uber near Chicago, has seen demand surge dramatically: orders jumped from a planned 200 copies to 1,000, with the label now considering a pressing of 2,000. Raised in Glasgow before his family relocated to the US, Hall's life intersected with figures such as Allen Ginsberg and Arthur Russell during his time in New York's East Village arts scene, lending the record's belated success a sense of poetic justice.