October 22 street date. Matador Records is thrilled to announce the release of "-io", the sixth album by vocalist and composer Haley Fohr, best known as Circuit des Yeux. A celebrated figure in Chicago's music community, Circuit des Yeux has released acclaimed albums via De Stijl, Thrill Jockey, and Drag City and toured throughout the world. "-io" is her most ornate and elaborate work to date - a set of compositions that nest Fohr’s otherworldly four-octave voice amid a 24-piece string, brass, and wind ensemble. The album was put to tape last fall by Cooper Crain at Chicago's Electrical Audio studio and mixed by Marta Salogni (Bjork, Holly Herndon) with Fohr acting as arranger and producer. Written in the wake of personal loss and recorded in the midst of the pandemic, "-io" maps a geography of grief - a place where "everything is ending all the time". While Fohr's music has never been short on ambition, these songs are striking in their brilliance and strangeness. On "-io", Circuit des Yeux has delivered a work that is vivid, immense, and fully illuminated.
March 14 street date. Chicago-based experimental composer and world class vocalist Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) presents an adventurous new album, "Halo On The Inside", marking a thrilling new era for the celebrated artist. Less a departure than an evolution, the record finds Fohr channelling the dark orchestral folk of previous work through the prismatic lens of dark-wave and industrial music, creating a sound that maintains the poetic heart of her songwriting while pulling it through new worlds and sonic textures. There's shock in metamorphosis, "Halo On The Inside" tells us, but there's also levity and beauty. A moment of seclusion and dislocation, yielding to rebirth and ominous beauty.
March 14 street date. Chicago-based experimental composer and world class vocalist Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) presents an adventurous new album, "Halo On The Inside", marking a thrilling new era for the celebrated artist. Less a departure than an evolution, the record finds Fohr channelling the dark orchestral folk of previous work through the prismatic lens of dark-wave and industrial music, creating a sound that maintains the poetic heart of her songwriting while pulling it through new worlds and sonic textures. There's shock in metamorphosis, "Halo On The Inside" tells us, but there's also levity and beauty. A moment of seclusion and dislocation, yielding to rebirth and ominous beauty.