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The self is rarely a steady flame; more often, it flickers between frost and fire. One moment, the heart retreats into a cool chamber of reason, protecting itself with distance, clarity, and restraint. The next, it surges forward, reckless with longing, warmth spilling through every guarded seam. Between these states lies the uneasy terrain of being human. Too much coldness calcifies the soul; too much passion consumes it. Yet it is precisely in the oscillation, this quiet pendulum between detachment and desire, that a person discovers their shape. Identity forms in the tension between the urge to withdraw and the need to feel everything.
Barcelona’s HUIR circle this same inner weather on their new single, succinctly titled You. Ana Of The Head and David Solazo, a pair who formed the group just a few years ago, approach darkwave with the attitude of people who know storms well enough to walk straight into them.
You is a visceral exploration of inner struggle and personal healing. Synths surge, guitar lines cut across the air, percussion cracks like thunder rolling between buildings. The melody travels through the track like lightning splitting a night sky open. With an immersive atmosphere and lyrics charged with determination and power, the song moves through silence, confronts the wounds that shape us, and transforms vulnerability into strength. Huir builds tension with patience, letting the track breathe before the next charge lands. Ana’s voice carries a calm authority, gliding through the electronic current while Solazo’s guitar sends sparks across the rhythm.
The band digs into the emotional complexity of the self, navigating between coldness and passion until the song begins to feel like a private reckoning staged at full volume. That friction becomes the engine. Pain meets persistence; distance collides with desire.
The video, directed by Alex Francitorra and filmed at Groove Sabadell, expands that idea through movement. A cast of artists from the international darkwave community appear as living extensions of the track: SIIE, Emmon, Aux Animaux, Dlina Volny, Carrellee, R.Missing, and Night In Athens. Each performer translates the song’s emotional push through gesture and motion, turning the screen into a gathering of kindred spirits who understand that healing often begins by stepping directly into the storm.
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Listen to You below and order the single here. You can pre-order States of Light here.
HUIR formed in June 2022 and quickly moved from rehearsal rooms to the studio. By April 2023 they had recorded their debut EP, Triumphal Arch Lovers, released through the German label Cold Transmission Music. The record was produced, mixed, and mastered by Maurizio Baggio (Boy Harsher, The Soft Moon) at La Distilleria in Italy.
In February 2025, the band followed with a remix EP featuring reinterpretations by The KVB, Buzz Kull, R. Missing, and Fragrance, once again mastered by Baggio. Two months later, HUIR returned to Italy to record their second EP, States of Light, which they will present live across Europe from October 2025 into 2026. Along the way, HUIR have shared the stage with influential acts such as Chameleons and Lebanon Hanover
Their growing live presence has taken them to festivals and venues including Primavera Sound, Ombra Festival, and several dates in Germany, such as Cold Transmission Label Night, Cold Temple Festival, Eastside Open Festival, and Cold Hearted Festival, alongside appearances at Barcelona’s Cruïlla Festival.
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So cast it out of heaven, but don’t look it in the face
It’s simpler to reduce it to the lie
That you’re holding to your heart, like an article of faith
To teach you not to see with your own eyes.
Some bands write songs so they can brood in a corner with a glass of something brown and buzzy. Hot Hail! write songs that sound like they’ve been staring at the evening news too long and finally decided to turn the nausea into electricity. Article Of Faith, the first strike from their upcoming second LP Hope In Hell, carries the clipped cool of classic synthpop while dragging a very contemporary disgust through the room.
The groove has that lean, metropolitan snap; the kind of rhythm that would’ve fit comfortably on a mixtape wedged between early New Order, Songs of Faith and Devotion-era Depeche Mode, and a brooding Tears For Fears B-side. Keys glide in tight patterns, drum machines keep the whole track marching forward with a kind of stiff-backed discipline, and the arrangement stays restrained enough to let the lyrics sit there like a bruise.
The lyrics aren’t coy about their target. Article Of Faith zeroes in on the peculiar national hobby of dressing prejudice up as principle. The song sketches a population so addicted to ideological certainty that reality itself becomes optional. Evidence bends, compassion shrivels, and cruelty gets dressed up in the respectable clothes of belief. The effect is unsettling in the best possible way. The music moves with the clean precision of classic synthpop, while the words carry a sour anger that seeps through the track. It feels like the band took the polished architecture of ’80s pop and slipped a political hand grenade under the floorboards.
Sigil puts the sentiment bluntly: “These are people who will literally watch us shot in the street and come up with a reason why it is excusable. They will watch much worse happen and do the same. Their ignorance, their absolute inability to be wrong about any of this, is like an article of faith in a nightmare religion. People like Trump are just the oozing white head on the huge sebaceous cyst that these people represent. We will never win their hearts and minds, and they will happily exterminate all of us if given the chance. That’s a reality that we should probably really start thinking about.”
That quote lands like a punchline from hell, and the song around it keeps a cool composure that makes the sentiment hit harder. Hot Hail! used to swim in darker waters on tracks like All The Blood You Wanted, but here they step into sleeker territory without sanding down the anger. If Hope In Hell follows this blueprint, the album could wind up sounding like a dance floor argument with the apocalypse.
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Massachusetts-based independent alternative label Counter Intuitive Records has officially partnered with Melbourne’s Civilians, ushering in a new chapter for both labels and expanding the reach of one of the most exciting rosters in modern alternative music to Australia. The partnership kicks off with Albany, NY punk-rock favourites Prince Daddy & the Hyena and the announcement […]Yes, you read that headline right. The ambient drone from supermarket freezers is the UK’s latest music sensation. In recent weeks, the frozen food section hum at the Sheffield co-op on Ecclesall Road went viral.
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