JUST LISTEN: Hibou “Mailson”

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JUST LISTEN: Hibou “Mailson”

The Deets:

Who: Hibou
Song: “Mailson”
Appears On: The latest single from the forthcoming album Something Familiar, out March 2nd on Seattle indie label Barsuk Records.
Current Location: Seattle
Info: The new album follows Hibou’s 2015 self-titled debut, a home recorded album that gained notice from the likes of Pitchfork , Stereogum , and Consequence of Sound . “Malison” is “the most honest song I’ve ever written,” says Peter Michel, the force behind Hibou. “It confronts the attention that my anxiety demands and handicaps me into a spiral of routines that only end up making things worse. I can’t remember the last time I had a day where I felt comfortable in my own skin and felt like I wasn’t putting on an act of normality.”

Michel’s ongoing battle with anxiety and depersonalization was a major factor in the songwriting behind Something Familiar as a whole, and “Malison” follows the release of “Junipero Love”, a song inspired in part by the Emmy award winning Black Mirror episode “San Junipero”, which was built around the anxieties of the story’s protagonist Yorkie. With it’s “breezy and playful guitar lines and cozy synth swells,” writes Seattle Weekly, “‘Junipero Love’ idyllically distills the warm dreaminess of San Junipero’s digital beaches.”

Comments: A crunchy, cinematic adventure, Hibou is back with an expansive synth-laden new track where the Seattle-based artist puts it all on the line. This is the track for those ready to spiral out of control due to their own anxiety; a song that let’s you confront your own inner-being and come out of it feeling lighter than you did before as you float along to the airy new single.

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