HWYUIOD – The Window
HWYUIOD – The Window
HWYUIOD – The Window

HWYUIOD – The Window

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Label: Les Disques Omnison – OMNISON11, Protopost (2) – PRPO2230
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: France
Released: 4 Jul 2025
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Experimental, Post Rock, Shoegaze, Slowcore, Midwest Emo

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better!  

Back last year Parisian underbelly mainstays Shelter & Orion combined on Here’s Where You Understand It’s Only Dreaming on undoubtedly one of the annual highlights.  Now growing in confidence, adding Thomas Riguelle, adopting the HWYUIOD pseudonym and turning their motorik gaze inwards, the trio have really touched upon something special that even the most vacant DIY music appreciator would struggle to ignore.  It’s really the sound we’ve been waiting for.  The trio seem to have smelted down disparate threads of their record collections - golden era Kranky, Don Cherry, Crescent, contemporary giants Tanz Mein Herz, Slint, Duster… THE LIST GOES ON - creating a glorious grey area between post-rock, ambient, new-age, slow-core and improvisational idioms.  Oscillating between moments of stoned, introverted seance and fuzz-drenched death-trudge the group keep everything slack, sleep-deprived and pitched down to a slurry.  Recycling and paying homage to the past whilst creating a new voice surely remains the perpetual holy grail of contemporary music, we’re struggling to think of anyone doing it better than this lot right now.  A label and crew that can’t miss - more please!!!!  (Mint / New - limited press 1pp pls!!)

 

Text by Maximilien "Oedipe Purple" Douche :

"HWYUIOD?! Here's where you understand it's only dreaming. The band’s declaration, rather a mantra, like a philosophical postulate, proves to be the best definition of this elegant trio. The gang's first discographic incarnation blended the desert and the electricity, recorded on a magic carpet, with promises of sequels, of evasion we should say. It's even better this time, as the language spoken here grows deeper with each live. The permanent mutation of HWYUIOD's sound reflects the human triangle at work. Ears fed on electronic hypnosis records, shoegaze lava flows, free music or anything solid that the avant-garde can offer, the amalgam is inevitably fruitful in dementia. Alan Briand (Shelter), Tom Val (Orion) and Thomas Riguelle seize upon an idiom of the edges, where slacker rock and slow-core invite themselves into the lore. Scarred ambient is always present, but beyond the magnificent kraut-racket, the impression of hearing a Turkish version of Fugazi imposes itself, with the ghost of Don Cherry not far away, laying his hand on the frail shoulders of our heroes in the making. An obvious synthesis of an era, a symptom of a time when all kinds of exciting music coagulate, HWYUIOD stuns a little more with panache. Distorted voices, celestial swirls, we dive right back in. We think of the great ones… The spirit is perched on the roof of the Fondation Maeght, not far from La Monte Young considering a collaborating with Neu! on an album to be released on Sub Pop. Today it's like that, but tomorrow it'll be even more puzzling. Take the train, we don't know where we're going, but the joy will remain."

Tracklist
A1        Empty Leg    4:55
A2        High Noon    6:15
A3        Chiaroscuro    5:28
A4        Deacon Of Myrka    2:50
B1        Phantom Cab    7:39
B2        Cerberus Man    3:42
B3        The Window    8:06