untitled (halo) – sex
untitled (halo) shares the new single “sex,” today.
The latest offering from the forthcoming self-titled debut album, out November 6th via Dirty Hit, is a high energy, glitchy jam featuring echoing gang vocals behind vocalist Ariana Mamnoon’s soothing cadence. “sex” arrives with a music video directed by untitled (halo), shot between Los Angeles and Paris on handycam. The latest single follows the previously released “easy rider” and “aimee lou wood freestyle,” both of which arrived with music videos directed by the band.
Speaking about the song Ariana shares, “This is a song that makes you feel like you just left the 4am rave and are finally walking to see the natural light. Perhaps the most dance track by the band, one that feels relatable and while a bit disjointed and gleeful, there are moments of restraint. The song is about a desire for the party.”
Born, in part, from a feeling that there was a “lack of a scene or music in LA,” longtime friends and band members Ariana Mamnoon, Jack Dione, Jay Are, and Nicholas Noneman had already spent years moving through LA’s DIY community, absorbing its overlapping histories before eventually finding one another. That shared history has become part of untitled (halo)’s identity, the culmination of years spent contributing to, and being shaped by, the scenes around them. Through their self-curated events, including their curation of a 40-person group art show, This Heaven Knows Bars with Obey, and their ongoing party series held in various local venues, they have created the spaces and music community they once yearned for.
Written over the course of a year in their Glassell Park studio, their debut album is about the act of construction: how memories are edited, identities are formed, and personal mythology is built from the pieces left behind. During this time, (halo) members were navigating their own heartbreak, tumultuous relationships, existential reckonings, and isolation. They were, in their words, “emotional people in need of sonic catharsis.” What began as a period of uncertainty became the impetus for making the record at all. The studio became an escape for Ari, Jack, Jay, and Nick, a place they could pour everything into sound. With each song, a page was marked, time was kept, and in some small way, they made sense of the nonsensical. But perhaps more importantly, the process was a reminder that we are truly in perpetual motion even when it feels like we have been circling the same questions since our youth.
The band has coined this subdued emotional current running beneath a place whose vastness promises exponential growth while quietly fostering emotional stasis: California Melancholia. In their self-titled debut album, the band transposes the trembling discontent and monotonous pain of existence into something tangible and cathartic. Here, endless beauty and synthetic abundance make longing feel as permanent as the sunshine itself. The band shares, “This underlying dread comes from taking note of all the artificiality around you, looking for the seams that make the city real, taking shape in the people you love and trust while the new becomes old and the old becomes new again in an endless cycle of manufacturing and optimizing. The music we make is a cry that becomes a screenshot, or a captured memory that we existed and felt real in the process of making it.”
You can hear each member working through these feelings across the record – the refusal to let go, the desire to understand, the realization that some things cannot be held onto forever.
untitled (halo) just wrapped a run of headline shows in Europe, where they performed in Barcelona, Oslo, Frankfurt, two dates in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and more. This November, untitled (halo) will embark on a headline North American run with shows in Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York City, and San Francisco before wrapping up with a hometown show in Los Angeles.
Upcoming Live Dates
11/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
11/12 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
11/14 – New York, NY @ Baby’s All Right
11/18 – San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar
11/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
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