"Bleak And Beautiful (All Things)" by Haiku Salut is uniquely stunning [Premiere]

The single features on upcoming second record Etch And Etch Deep, out 31 July. It follows 2013's Tricolore.

Their mouthful-of-a-genre isn't far of, frankly; this tune merges worlds and genres with callous disregard for adhering to the norm. We see techno and minimalist beats coalesce with trad. folk melodies; pastoral pop pastiches pirouette with carnival-noir accordions, tinkling glocks and ambient synths. It's vivid instrumental post-folk that isn't afraid to tear up the rulebook and begin fresh.

The band's Sophie Barkerwood said of the track:

“We’ve chosen this song as our first single because when we wrote it, it made us feel that we’d arrived somewhere. It’s a mix of electronics and rustic instrumentation and it came alive very quickly. We’ve been patch-working genres for a while now and when the song came along it was like the seams weren’t showing anymore and that was exciting. The title is a play on All Things Bright and Beautiful. It recognises that there isn’t anything divine, there isn’t a meaning behind anything, things don’t ‘happen for a reason’, and fate doesn’t exist. A lot of people would probably say that this is a bleak and depressing outlook but it isn’t actually. Doesn’t that make it even more amazing that we exist?”

Stream "Bleak and Beautiful (All Things)" below.