Hayden Thorpe shares new single "Golden Ratio"

Ahead of releasing his second solo album Moondust For My Diamond on Friday (15 October), Thorpe has shared new cut "Golden Ratio" as a final taster of the record before it arrives in full.

The new single, accompanied by a Juliet Klottrup-directed video, will appear on the album alongside previous singles "Metafeeling", "Parallel Kingdom" and "The Universe Is Always Right".

Speaking about the track, Thorpe said, "When I was writing "Golden Ratio", I landed upon it as a kind of simple devotional song to science. I see music very much as a replication of nature, the shapes and patterns that we perceive in music are found in all kinds of things like flowers and shells. Science and mathematics have allowed us to decipher this hidden order. Writing songs therefore becomes less about summoning from within and more about noticing what’s already there."

Moondust For My Diamond will follow Thorpe's 2019 debut solo album Diviner, and according to Thorpe it explores "the meeting point between science and religion, the grand struggle for reality that shapes so much of our time."

He added, "What about nature? What about the cosmos? What about all these things that break through the tyranny of the self? Our sense organs bring the world inside of us after all, I just had to sing it back out. I was enchanted again with the mystery of science and how I might speak from the heart in an age where metric is gospel."