HWYUIOD - The Window

HWYUIOD
The Window
Les Disques Omnison 
France, 2025
LP 

The Parisian underground unfurls another tentacle with the advent of HWYUIOD the band, an offshoot of Shelter & Orion’s 2024 Here’s Where You Understand It’s Only Dreaming. With Thomas Riguelle in tow, they throw downer slow-core post-rock into the cauldron, with cosmic stardust a la Don Cherry & Jon Hassell still bubbling to the top. Like a convention of disparate stoners across time & space, it’s the perfect late-night complement to the discontented hum of your AC unit.

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FROM THE LABEL:

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."