Hiatus Kaiyote Debut “Everything’s Beautiful”

Hiatus Kaiyote, welcome 2024 with their new single "Everything's Beautiful"
Hiatus Kaiyote photo credit: Rocket Weijers

Hiatus Kaiyote, welcome 2024 with their new single “Everything’s Beautiful”. The track is the band’s first new release in two years and lifted from their forthcoming project. Alongside with the song, the band announces that their upcoming Melbourne show at The Evelyn, one of the first formative venues where the band performed, will be made available to livestream here beginning at 5am ET tomorrow (January 24th). Members of Hiatus Kaiyote, include Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keyboards), and Perrin Moss (drums).

“Everything’s Beautiful” is a musical affirmation in celebration of life’s infinite possibilities. The hopeful single, mixed by Mario Caldato Jr. (Beastie Boys, Björk, Blur, Beck).

Nai shares about how the song came together, “”Everything’s Beautiful” is a testament to the importance of finding simple joy in your day. To me, my happy place is walking around exploring the world with my headphones. I wanted to write something very simple without complex, deep philosophical meaning like most of my writing tends to be. I wrote the vocal melody and general bass riff in a dream napping on my manager Scott Barkham’s couch in New York one day, and brought it into the waking world which is really hard to do for me. Initially, the dream hook was Berry Street beautiful, but I changed the lyrics when I developed it more with the band. It’s not the delusion that we live in a utopia out here on this planet, but rather about actively looking for the beauty, grace and joy in life.”

Mood Variant came together after a six-year period where the band spent time touring, writing, and recording before landing in Rio de Janeiro in 2019 to work with legendary Brazilian arranger Arthur Verocai. Upon its release the band received co-signs from Kehlani, Willow Smith, Virgil Abloh, among others. The new single also follows the release of their remix album Mood Variant, a 10-track project that includes remixes from Nick Hakim, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Stro Elliot, Salami Rose Joe Louis, DJ Khalil, Teebs, and Mndsgn.

Watch Hiatus Kaiyote live Stream HERE

Order “Everything’s Beautiful” by Hiatus Kaiyote HERE

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