Last week St£fan remixed Good To Be Young live on Twitch. The result is available to listen on Soundcloud NOW (below). You can also watch the highlights from the livestream, including my live realtime reaction to the remix, via St£fan’s YouTube page (also below!). x
'Seen The Boreal' out now!
Today we release a second new single, ‘Seen The Boreal’, available on Vevo and your favourite streaming services! Add it to your playlists, tell your friends, blast it out your window. It’s one of the most personal and introspective songs I’ve written, about dealing with anxiety and self-comparison. Anxiety is a physical feeling; it will pass if you let it. Watch the video below or click the image above to listen on streaming services.
Thanks so much to everyone involved with this - saxophone and woodwinds from Rittipo, co-production from JMAC and gang vocals from Paul Thomas Saunders, AK Patterson, Ellen Murphy (Balaami/El & Del/Nitework), Penelope Isles and Hannah & Zoe from Lonely Fire.
The music video was directed by Tough Honey with drone work from Tobias Brent, set design + art dept Olly Williams & Alex Bell, gaffer Paul Hines, assistants Taner Enver and Jake Ovington, edited by Lief Phelps.
‘Good To Be Young’ on the radio
Big love to all the great radio stations and DJs in the UK and abroad who’ve given Good To Be Young a spin since release. Considering we didn’t do a radio campaign I really wasn’t expecting radio support for this. So thank you! Another new single next week x
2021 Tour Dates
Honestly feels pretty euphoric to be able to announce some tour dates for 2021, doubly so that it's opening for my MERCURY NOMINATED label-buds Lanterns On The Lake! Congratulations to them and looking forward to hitting many places I've never played before, + FOCUS Wales Festival later in the year. I cannot wait to see you.
More TBA, ticket info available via hilangchildmusic.com/live. New single out now, listen at http://smarturl.it/hc_gtby xx
'GOOD TO BE YOUNG' OUT NOW!
Very excited to finally unveil ‘Good To Be Young’ today, the first single from my new body of work on Bella Union! Watch the video below, or click the image above to listen on streaming services.
Co-produced with JMAC (Haux, Troye Sivan, Lucy Rose), it’s the start of a chain of songs exploring the relationships we have with the validation-led world of modern social connection. I was joined on gang vocals by Paul Thomas Saunders, AK Patterson, Lily, Jack W and Jack S from Penelope Isles, Ellen Murphy from Balamii and Hannah & Zoe from Lonely Fire.
The video was made with Tough Honey and Notch VFX, with drone work by Tobias Brent and additional compositing by Jack Dunn. Featuring beautiful motion-captured performances from Rachel Laird and Hazel Sutton. xx
NEW THINGS INCOMING
In a couple of weeks we’ll be releasing the first track from my brand new body of work. Honestly can’t wait to share. Here’s a few more behind-the-scenes from the studio. Subscribe to my mailing list by clicking ‘contact’ above, or follow on social media @hilangchild to be kept the loop x
Still Life
I wrote the soundtrack for the heartwrenching/heartwarming short ‘Still Life’, showing older peoples’ experiences of lockdown. Directed by Rosie Litterick for Capital Age Arts, it’s available now on Vimeo - watch below.
Focus Wales Festival 2021
Sadly like many festivals in this uncertain time, Focus Wales Festival has had to postpone until October 2021. But their team has taken on the absolutely massive task of reorganising, so myself + the 2020 lineup will be back next year, with more tba! Tickets for 2020 will roll over and be valid for ‘21. Back stronger x