Circuit des Yeux has announced the immediate digital release of Halo on the Inside: Director’s Cut, an expanded version of the artist’s album from earlier this year.

This new edition, available on September 30 via Matador Records (Queens Of The Stone Age, Horsegirl, Car Seat Headrest) presents the album as it was initially conceived by musician Haley Fohr. The Director’s Cut reinstates the originally intended tracklist and expands the project with five additional recordings, including three previously unreleased compositions and two demos. To accompany the release, a new video for the unreleased song “Decoy” has also been made public.

The release of the original album was followed by a successful world tour. Fohr is scheduled to return to the road this fall, with confirmed performance dates in the United States, Mexico, and the European Union.

Additionally, a special engagement has been scheduled for October 30th in Los Angeles, where Fohr will perform a new, original live score to the classic 1922 silent film Nosferatu. The event will be held at the Philosophical Research Society. Further details regarding the upcoming tour are expected in the coming weeks.

HOTI: Director’s Note

It has been over two years since the beginning of Halo on the Inside. Although our landscape continues to transform in unimaginable ways, my artistic statement in HOTI remains intact nearly 1,000 days after its inception.

Humans are not to be feared. We are not a perfect specimen, but we are as nature intended. 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.

It is my honor to present Halo on the Inside to you in its original form. My ‘Director’s Cut’ includes three previously unreleased tracks + two demos. They are songs that give breath + ooze to the conundrum of turning to love again + again + again. These newly included songs balance the previous presented work and allot in me a great, final exhale.

May you live in love + wonder,

H

Circuit Des Yeux
Halo On The Inside: Director’s Cut
Track List
Matador Records

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)

Circuit Des Yeux 2025 Tour Dates

Oct 1 – Chicago, IL @ NOT NOT
Oct 3 – León, MX @ Festival Intl. De Arte Contemporáneo
Oct 30 – Los Angeles, CA @ PRS (‘Nosferatu’ Live Score)
Nov 9 – Kortrijk, BE @ Sonic City Festival
Nov 11 – Copenhagen, DK @ ALICE
Nov 12 – Stockholm, SE @ Hus 7
Nov 13 – Oslo, NO @ Goldie
Nov 15 – Hamburg, DE @ Kampnagel
Nov 17 – Leipzig, UT @ Connewitz
Nov 18 – Katowice, PL @ Kinotear Rialto
Nov 20 – Milano, IT @ Arci Bellezza

pre-order Halo on The Inside (Director’s Cut) HERE