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Since I care about you all (deep down, but really deep down), and it's Sunday evening and you might have better things to do, I'll tell you right away: this is probably one of the best albums of 2025 released so far.
Circuit des Yeux is the artistic project of Haley Fohr, author, composer, and musician from Chicago. If you met her without knowing her, you might easily mistake her for a shaman or an Irish banshee; but luckily, I'm here to keep you informed: it's just Haley Fohr!
Haley has a musical background of experimental indie folk and country and synth pop sounds under the nickname Jackie Lynn, but Circuit des Yeux is a project that moves between experimental alternative rock, industrial atmospheres, and post-punk. However, everything is heavily focused on Fohr's vocal charisma, a sacred and magnetic voice that personally reminds me of a cross between Anohni and Nico.
"Halo On The Inside" is the seventh studio album by Circuit des Yeux, recorded in her basement between 9 P.M. and 5 A.M., where nocturnal rituals are born. The album was produced together with Andrew Broder, who has worked with Bon Iver, Moor Mother, and Lambchop, just to name a few.
"Halo On The Inside" is a grand, layered album, full of shadows that grow darker and darker. A post-punk "à la Matador", with lots of electronics, gothic and abrasive. The guitars often have the feedback knob open, creating a hedonistic and pagan wall of sound, reminiscent of the surreal atmospheres of Donnie Darko. Fohr's voice is a powerful instrument that seems to evoke dark and fascinating forces.
It's impossible not to mention "Skeleton Key," where the most baroque and distorted Muse of "Origin of Symmetry" resonate, and the concluding, cathartic, and purifying "It Takes My Pain Away," an instrumental piece that closes the circle sublimating pain, as in any respectable rite.
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