With her anticipated new album ‘Celebrate’ due out 22nd March, today Halo Maud shares her irresistible new single ‘My Desire Is Pure’ from the album. 

Starting off as a spiralling dream-pop glide that sits perfectly atop a lazy shuffling drum loop, ‘My Desire Is Pure’ opens out into a gorgeous chorus that throws the curtains wide open and declares Spring is here, two months early. The track comes accompanied by a captivating video which features Maud frolicking in the snowy French Alps.

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Commentating on the track Halo Maud says:

“The song is built around the ascending melody found in the refrain and also the phrase which became the title. I realized, once the song was completed, that it was constructed resembling a mountain: an ascending and descending melody providing relief, an arid guitar riff like boulders. And there is space: there aren’t many words and each sung phrase is punctuated by an instrumental motif, flowerbeds, a grove. From the vocals flow the desire, a pure and clear water source pouring into a stream. The stream watering the green prairies below. Desire as a source of life, freshness, creativity, perpetual movement. I adore this state of insatiability which compels me forward. I wanted to say that I live as a function of my desires, and that this desire never ends but transforms, into love, into songs, into a walk in the forest.”

On the video she adds:

“Mountains have always been a magical place for me, triggering an instant feeling of fullness. Hence I asked Adrien Selbert to go filming in the French Alps. We wanted whiteness, of course, the symbolic purity of the snow. Physical effort and animality. We wanted almost nothing, except an unexpected outcome.”

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Additionally, Halo Maud has announced news of UK/EU live dates in April and May including support shows with Jane Weaver and a headline show as part of Sounds From The Other City.

13/04 • Freiburg, Theater • With the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra •

26/04 • Manchester, Band on The Wall*
28/04 • Nottingham, Rescue Rooms*
29/04 • Cambridge, Junction*
30/04 • Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms*
01/05 • Brighton, Concorde 2*
02/05 • London, Scala*
05/05 • Sounds From The Other City at St. Phillips Church
17/05 • Get Together Festival, Sheffield
30/05 • Paris, Point Éphémère

*with Jane Weaver

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