Under the twilight glow, dancing through empty streets home, untitled (halo) revels in ambiguity with their new single, ‘blunt subconscious’. A skipping dive into a raw, unfiltered space full of decay and rejection.
Their lo-fi guitar hums in dense, washed-out waves, haunting and immersive. Each member of the trio—Ari Mamnoon, Jack Dione, and Jay Are—takes their own verse, unflinchingly laid bare and each as saturnine as the last. Within this melancholic haze, a quickly plucked bass line and hi-hat-heavy rhythm pulse like a nervous heartbeat, injecting frenetic groove into the track’s brooding calm without softening the edges. This is love—or rather, heartbreak—in all its self- destructive and apathetic glory.
The enigmatic L.A. based band has a knack for conjuring a kind of beautiful ruin. Their grainy, almost soupy sound recalls the detached melancholy of ‘90s shoegaze and early indie slacker rock while spiralling into something both darker and closer to the kind of internet subcultures of the early 2000s. Bursting with angst, untitled (halo) are becoming a band increasingly hard to ignore.
Photo by Justin Saldana
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