HIDE release an explosive, 54 second single and video “Nightmare” that conflates time and space to the beat of repeated blows to the head. HIDE’s Heather Gabel tells, “I didn't write these lyrics, they came from my mother's mouth. She called and said, ‘Last night I had a vision of you, I'm scared, the pain is never-ending.’ This track is as much about generational trauma as it is about healing, and is dedicated to my كسبنة جده, who is always with me.”
HIDE is the electronic project of Chicago based artists Heather Gabel and Seth Sher. Together they create dark and heavy sample-based compositions using a combination of self-sourced field recordings and various pop culture and media references. Their music is textured, minimal, and powerful, giving raw vulnerability an opportunity to unfurl. It’s honest, confrontational and thought-provoking.
On Interior Terror, HIDE further abandon traditional concepts of song structure in favor of splintered rhythms and fevered, immediate release. Expanding on previous themes of autonomy and empowerment, Interior Terror addresses and questions the corporeal and immaterial body in a physical and metaphysical sense. Turning to the dread inside, reflecting on the world around us, HIDE gives voice to the power of destruction as a catalyst for hope, and to the collective experiences of those who've come before us as a wellspring of our own power.
Vocal delivery of mantra-like prose issued forth yields a raging, plaintive wail that lulls, mocks, questions, proclaims and decries. A dearth of collected field recordings give way to more fluid arrangements while retaining a scathing urgency. The result is spacious and jarring; a distant knocking grown into the pulse of a hypnotic dirge, drones emerge from shards of decomposed sound, bending, seething their way through your body.
Interior Terror, the duo's third album for Dais was recorded with Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and was mastered by Heba Kadry in NYC. It sees its release May 28; pre-order it here. 
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