Listen to new single "Soap" below.
Zephyrus, the new EP from acclaimed brother-sister duo The Oh Hellos, is set for release on October 16. Pre-save the album here: https://theohhellos.fanlink.to/Zephyrus. In conjunction with the announcement, the band debuts the EP's lead single "Soap" today; listen below.
Zephyrus is the final EP in a series of four that was named after one of the four Greek mythological wind deities that bring the seasons. The series is driven by the overarching question: "Where did my ideas come from?" With each EP and the "wind" it represents, siblings Tyler and Maggie Heath explore the stages of answering that question.
"We felt like we needed more time to expand on our ideas than a standard LP would have given us; we like to keep each of our albums more or less contained to a single idea or theme, and we had a lot to say about this one. Releasing this music serially is also giving us time to really refine our thoughts for each EP-letting us express them as best we can, not just as quickly as we can," note Tyler and Maggie.
Below please find additional commentary from Tyler and Maggie on Zephyrus as well as their previously released EP's Boreas, Eurus and Notos.
Zephyrus, the last cardinal wind of this project, brought the gentle warmth of spring that summoned up a new year of growth. The kind of growth we could see in ourselves, should we allow ourselves to be vulnerable. A growth rooted in the fertile ashes of all the structures that keep us isolated, numb, and hardened in the first place. The arrangements mirror that shift, rising up like tender leaves breaking through concrete and cascading like the first thaw of the season.
Boreas, the northern wind, ushers in the harsh frosts of lonely winter. The arrangements evoke images of snow-blanketed darkness, candlelight behind cupped hands, and a vast night sky ribboned with stars and auroras. As we wrote these songs, we found ourselves confronted with the ways we've reflected this-how we often avoid discomfort, even at the expense of others, until we are left cold, hard, and unfeeling. In this record, we ask the winter to instead kindle us into something warmer and softer than who we've been.The Oh Hellos began making music together in 2011 with a song written for their mother's birthday followed later that year with their self-titled, self-produced, independently released debut EP. The four-track recording featured the hit song "Hello My Old Heart," which received national airplay and currently has over 26 million streams on Spotify. Since forming, the sibling duo has built an impressive reputation for surrounding themselves with a rotating cast of pickers and players, numbering as many as 13 at any given time, often spilling into the audience.
Listen to "Soap" here:
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