Hush – Phasing
Montreal psychedelic 3-piece Hush release their 2nd single “Phasing” off their debut album is set for release in spring / summer 2026.
Following “The Mirrors Were Right”, released last autumn, “Phasing” drifts further into the dreamlike terrain of Hush, the Montréal trio composed of Paige Barlow, Miles Dupire-Gagnon, and Gabriel Lambert (members of Hippie Hourrah, Elephant Stone, Anemone, and The Besnard Lakes).
The track introduces a hypnotic, sunlit dimension of the band’s debut album, due later this year on Simone Records.
Tension between self-narrative and lived reality, the limits of language, and private worlds we alone inhabit all surface in Phasing, a hypnagogic dream-pop song by Hush, available now on streaming and download platforms.
I’m facedown in the spaces
of sky lies to face up to
In eyeline with the headlights,
I realize without a doubt
Spellbound, serpen-times
Spell out what we’re up to
Broken lines of water,
In your fountain of youth
An impressionistic portrait moving fluidly between micro and macro, atom and sky, Phasing centres Paige Barlow’s braided lyricism. Fragments of memory are drawn together as if viewed through a stereoscope—overlapping, slightly out of phase, yet forming a single storyline. Sung in a light, open, and quietly radiant voice, the piece explores the ebb and shift of feeling and perception—“I love you is just a phase and / I’m phasing in and out”—questioning the reciprocity and durability of the ties we form.
True to its name, the song works on multiple planes. As the lyrics trace fleeting phases of connection, the music moves in soft, cyclical waves, carrying a sense of perpetual motion. Miles Dupire-Gagnon and Gabriel Lambert drive a rich, enveloping soundscape guided by slow, sunward arcs—themes emerge, transform, and resurface through varispeed tape techniques and the interplay of analogue and digital production. Operating at the intersection of dream pop, vaporwave, 90s house, and trip-hop, Phasing glides forward with ease, like drifting from wakefulness into night without fully crossing the threshold.
The release is accompanied by a music video conceived by Paige Barlow and Aabid Youssef, which mirrors the song’s stereoscopic blur and dialogue between micro and macro perspectives.
Produced by René Wilson and Miles Dupire-Gagnon, recorded alongside Samuel Gemme (Corridor, La Sécurité), and mixed by Wilson with assistance from Gemme, “Phasing” opens Hush’s debut album, slated for release later this year on Simone Records.
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