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Jun 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts HÆLOS

London-based HÆLOS released a new album, Any Random Kindness, last month via Infectious (stream it here). Now they have shared a video for the album’s “End of the World Party.” The disorientating clip features a young woman as she jumps back and forth from moment to moment from being at any empty beach to being in a crowded dance club. One shot hints that perhaps she was involved in a car crash. Watch it below. Also below are the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Cassidy Burcher directed the video. The band issued this press statement about it: “With ‘End of World Party’ we wanted to explore what it might be like to dance simultaneously in current and future time frames. We explored the themes during hours of conversations that covered the death of ecosystems, virtual reality, and time loops. We focused on wanting to display how our landscapes stand on the point of unprecedented change but also the universal sense of catharsis that can emerge through movement to music.”

Read our recent Self-Portrait interview with HÆLOS’ Lotti Benardout.

Any Random Kindness is the band’s second album, the follow-up to 2016’s debut full-length, Full Circle, which was released via Matador. The album includes “Buried in the Sand,” a new song the band shared back in October via a video (it was one of our Songs of the Week), and “Kyoto,” a new song shared in January via a video for it (it was also one of our Songs of the Week). Then they shared another new song from the album, “Boy / Girl.” That was followed by “End of the World Party” (which also made our Songs of the Week list). Then they shared another song from it, “Another Universe,” which was the album’s last pre-release single and also made our Songs of the Week list.

HÆLOS were originally a trio (Arthur Delaney, Dom Goldsmith, and Lotti Benardout), but have now added touring member Daniel Vildósola. On their debut the band pulled from ‘90s trip-hop sounds originated by Massive Attack and Portishead for inspiration.

The album was recorded at Baltic Studios in East London and at their home studio. Matt Wiggins (Glass Animals) and Marta Salongi (The xx) mixed the album.

A press release points out: “The latter part of the recording was especially tense, with many near breakups. However, this process led to a new, optimistic perception of each other, and music that explored the push and pull of relationships. A new, increasingly dance-floor oriented direction to their sound emerged.”

Read our 2015 article on HÆLOS.

HÆLOS Tour Dates:

Fri. May 31 - Porec, HR @ Lighthouse Festival
Fri. June 7 - Sat. June 8 - London, UK @ Field Day
Fri. June 28 - Somerset, UK @ Glastonbury
Sun. July 14 - Kiev, UA @ Atlas Weekend Festival
Sun. July 21 - Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
Thu. Aug. 29 - Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg
Fri. Aug. 30 - Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown
Sat. Aug. 31 - Vlieland, NL @ Into The Great Wide Open
Sun. Sept. 15 - Island of Terschelling, NL @ Eilân Festival
Tue. Oct. 8 - Prague, CZ @ Rock Café
Wed. Oct. 9 - Vienna, AT @ Grelle Forelle
Thu. Oct. 10 - Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
Fri. Oct. 11 - Hamburg, DE @ Waagenbau
Sun. Oct. 13 - Düsseldorf, DE @ New Fall Festival
Mon. Oct. 14 - Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
Tue. Oct. 15 - Antwerp, BE @ Trix Club
Sat. Oct. 19 - Belfast, IE @ Voodoo
Sun. Oct. 20 - Dublin, IE @ Whelans
Tue. Oct. 22 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 (Warehouse)
Wed. Oct. 23 - Manchester, UL @ Band On The Wall
Thu. Oct. 24 - Leeds, UK @ Wardrobe
Sat. Oct. 26 - Nottingham, UK @ Metronome
Sun. Oct. 27 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla
Tue. Oct. 29 - London, UK @ Electric Brixton

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