Helado Negro has released the new single ‘La Naranja’. The song is accompanied by an official video directed by Andrew Anderson.
‘La Naranja’ is the third single to preview the new album Far In which will be released on 22 October. The song opens with long violin tones, joined by a creeping tea kettle frequency. Rather than a brutal jolt, at the point of contact, Roberto Lange’s voice gleefully bounces in to tell us that we will survive the end of the world. It’s possible to hear the world on fire and the abundant fruit of collective courage turning round at once. Supported by the grounding bassline of Taja Cheek (L’Rain), Roberto’s faith in survival persists.
‘La Naranja’ follows the singles ‘Outside the Outside’ and ‘Gemini And Leo’ from Helado Negro’s upcoming album Far In which will be released on 22 October. Far In is Helado Negro’s first album on 4AD and the seventh full-length album in his catalogue. It follows his breakthrough 2019 release This Is How You Smile.
When Helado Negro began writing ‘Far In’ immediately following his breakthrough 2019 release ‘This is How You Smile,’ he could not have predicted that we would soon need to learn how to stay at home and be the stars of our domestic dance floors with intimates and online communities. In “Gemini and Leo,” the titular pair stay indoors to discover each other anew with music recalling Roberto’s youth growing up in South Florida listening to 80s club songs, and their return sampled in 90s hip hop. Visions past and future meet in a euphoria of uptempo drums, Jen Wasner’s (Flock of Dimes) funky bass line, and Opal Hoyt’s (Zenizen) galactic swirl of warm and steely synths and bright backing vocals.
Roberto and his partner, the visual artist Kristi Sword, had planned to visit Marfa, Texas for an early 2020 residency to work on their collaborative project. Once the pandemic hit, they decided to stay in Marfa through the summer, inspiring Roberto to write a significant amount of songs on the upcoming album.
“Escape is never out there, you have to go inward,” Roberto reflects on developing an epic Helado Negro double album during these extraordinary times, embracing the dark of the unknown with openness, pleasure, and growth. Throughout Roberto’s career, imagined beings, ghosts and haunted machines appear in sci-fi stories and his own conjurings. On Far In, Roberto says he “celebrates the ghosts,” embracing pleasure and freedom to follow the metaphysical further.
Far In will be available digitally and on CD, standard black vinyl and Rose Quartz vinyl (Vinyl Me, Please exclusive) on 22 October. Pre-order Far In from heladonegro.ffm.to/farin
HELADO NEGRO – FAR IN – TRACKLIST
- Wake Up Tomorrow (feat. Kacy Hill)
- Gemini and Leo
- Purple Tones
- There Must Be A Song Like You
- Aguas Frías
- Aureole
- Hometown Dream
- Agosto (feat. Buscabulla)
- Outside the Outside
- Brown Fluorescence
- Wind Conversations
- Thank You For Ever
- La Naranja
- Telescope (feat. Benamin)
- Mirror Talk
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