Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) today releases Halo on the Inside: Director’s Cut, a digital edition presented in the form it was originally delivered to Matador Records.
This expanded version restores the intended tracklist and adds three previously unreleased songs plus two demos, including ‘Decoy’, a stark piano ballad shared with a new video, below.
“It is my honor to present Halo on the Inside to you in its original form,” Fohr says, reflecting further on the 1000 days since its inception. “This album was written in utter aloneness. I would pick up my hypothetical pen in my darkest hour when villains and enemies danced around mockingly in my mind. My etchings often felt like a fool’s errand, a brush with insanity.
But every so often dawn would break and the idioms of predator, abuser, grifter, and murderer would all break down to the same soft center; a wonderless child. We are each some form of an innocent, unknowing child who has been roughly marked by time.
We all need the help of strangers. It is a revelatory act to reach out and steady oneself with the hand of the unknown. This album was finished by benevolent strangers – people I had never met and some I will never meet. The result is my boldest, most thematic album. Each song on HOTI represents a wrestle of knowing love in all its heart-aching truths. It is my dearest hope that my efforts in creation during desolation will encourage others to find wonder when washed ashore on their own deserted island.”
An appeal to empathy that feels especially resonant in fractured times.
The Director’s Cut reinforces Halo on the Inside’s mysterious, enigmatic qualities, not just by broadening its scope, but by underscoring its open-ended refusal to contain itself. Fohr continues to move forward, fearless and free.
Circuit des Yeux tours this autumn across North America, Mexico and the EU, including an original live score to Nosferatu (1922) in Los Angeles Philosophical Research Society on 30 October.
HALO ON THE INSIDE: DIRECTOR’S CUT
TRACKLIST
1. God Dick
2. Megaloner
3. Canopy of Eden
4. Skeleton Key
5. Anthem of Me
6. Chamber I
7. Cosmic Joke
8. Cathexis
9. Heart Cave
10. Truth
11. Organ Bed
12. It Takes My Pain Away
13. Decoy
14. Cosmic Joke (Demo)
15. Truth (Demo)
LIVE DATES
OCTOBER
1st – NOT NOT, Chicago, IL
3rd – Festival Intl. De Arte Contemporáneo, León, MX
30th – PRS (‘Nosferatu’ Live Score) Los Angeles, CA
NOVEMBER
9th – Sonic City Festival, Kortrijk, BE
11th – ALICE, Copenhagen, DK
12th – Hus 7, Stockholm, SE
13th – Goldie, Oslo, NO
15th – Kampnagel, Hamburg, DE
17th – Connewitz, Leipzig, UT
Nov 18 – Kinotear Rialto, Katowice, PL
Nov 20 – Arci Bellezza, Milano, IT
Main photo: Dana Trippe
