halo maud photo Adrien Selbert
photo: Adrien Selbert

Halo Maud announces new album 'Celebrate,' shares "Terres Infinies"

French artist Halo Maud will release her second album, Celebrate, on March 22 via Heavenly. The announcement comes off of an eventful year that saw her collaborate with The Chemical Brothers on four amazing songs on their new album, and give birth to her first child.

“For me, music contains what words cannot,” says Maud. “It is its power to shape these things, and it’s what I hope to find while taking random bits, here and there, from the pitch of each note, their texture, their timbres, massaging and mixing them together until the sound resembles what is inside me. When everything fits together well the words settle in with the music to spread their clues. That’s when the song is ready. I called the album Celebrate because I danced a lot while creating it. I now feel that I can release it into the air. I hope that it will alight in your hands and ears, keep you company and resonate within you through multiple waves.”

Celebrate contains this year’s “Catch the Wave,” and the new single from the album is “Terres Infinies” (“Infinite Lands”), an immediate earworm featuring an infectious “Ba ba ba ba” chorus that was produced by Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier and inspired by a Soviet sci-fi classic. “A friend suggested that I see the film ‘Stalker’ by Tarkovski,” Maud says of the song. “The general ambience haunted me for some time. I began to have a recurring dream of a dried-up and deserted landscape that I had to traverse, without looking back, to find fertile lands. Then I realized this wasn’t too far from the actual state of affairs. I needed to cultivate a sense of humour about it. Simply put, turn this vision upside down. I imagined a place where we could drink directly from the clouds and read our futures in the trees, which is where this song came from. I produced it, along with a few others on the album, in collaboration with Greg Saunier. Discovering his group – Deerhoof – was one of the biggest musical shocks of my life. Working with him was a dream come true.”

Watch the “Terres Infinies” video below.

halo maud celebrate

Celebrate
1. Celebrate
2. Terres Infinies
3. My Desire Is Pure
4. Last Day Song
5. Slowly Surely
6. Catch The Wave
7. Le Ciel Est Grand
8. You Float (feat Greg Saunier)
9. A Te Voir
10. Iceberg (feat Flavien Berger)
11. Pesnopoïka
12. Entends – Tu Ma Voix