Chicago indie pop/dream pop artist Humdrum has revealed his new single “Eternal Blue” accompanied by a music video.
The song is taken from the upcoming debut album “Every Heaven,” due to be released on October 18 via Slumberland Records. Pre-order your copy here.
When the world — and his previous band Star Tropics — crumbled in the early days of the pandemic, Chicago’s Loren Vanderbilt began rebuilding himself through music and created Humdrum around his favorite elements of dream-pop, indiepop, shoegaze, and new wave.
Commenting on the track, Loren says:
“The bassline really kicked off what would become ‘Eternal Blue’, I liked the groove and found myself locked-in, playing it on loop and kinda dancing to myself trying to figure out where to take it. I was working on it at home and brought it to the practice room one day with a drum machine beat, and the other elements just kinda fell into place from there.“
“The song is about the suffocating isolation of loneliness and believing that you can only be resuscitated by true love.”
“The name was nicked from a 90s video game that I still haven’t managed to play but I always was fond of the title, Lunar: Eternal Blue. I have no idea what the ‘Eternal Blue’ is a reference to in that game, but to me and this song it’s the blue of a sky with no horizon, maybe of heaven, and it represents the beautiful parts of the universe we live in.”
Watch /listen below.
Every Heaven Tracklist:
- Every Heaven
- There And Back Again
- Superbloom
- Wave Goodbye
- Test of Time
- See Through You
- Eternal Blue
- Ultraviolet
- Come And Get Me
- Test of Time
- Underneath The Sky
