HULLAH releases ‘Roads’ from upcoming debut EP
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HULLAH announces the release of his newest single, ‘Roads’, the second single from his upcoming debut EP WAVESTATE, on 30th August 2024.
The single follows the lead single from the EP, ‘What if i feel like this my whole life?’ which was released earlier this year in May. His EP, WAVESTATE, will be released later this year and features a collection of self-produced songs and spoken-word soundscapes.
HULLAH shares, “I wrote and produced Roads after a moment of clarity I had coming home from a club in the early hours. It’s about how I try to escape from reality and how, afterwards, in coming back to “real” life, reality hits even harder. As the track grows, the more awake, more aware and more lucid the song becomes. The song ends with a call out for connection and a sense of direction; a feeling most clubbers can relate to after a long night spent escaping.”
The electronic dance track describes the lucid feeling many people experience whilst observing the world after the escapism of a night out. How the world keeps turning and lives are being lived even though they have escaped theirs for a brief period.
The artist, who lives with ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammatory disease, adds, “There’s a lucid, relaxed yet exhausted state I find myself in when I leave clubs. It’s the good kind of exhausted, I’ve escaped, had some great fun, maybe transcended – been free from my daily worries. Living with a disease and daily pain, the hours spent dancing is like a marathon to me. Yet the club is a place of worship and helps me get out of myself. I enjoy the freedom and courage I find in myself to dance alone, to let go. As a queer person, it’s also about finding pockets of safety and freedom even within “straight” spaces. I can feel less perceived. I can be unknown.”
Roads’ upfront, crisp and stereo production also sees the artist’s boldest vocal delivery yet – mirroring the clarity expressed in its lyrics. HULLAH concludes, “This song has opened up a path for me to explore my love of dance music within my own songwriting and production. I’m excited for the EP and what’s coming next.”
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BIOGRAPHY
HULLAH is a London-based and midlands-born writer-producer and designer creatively driven by a passion for nightlife culture, city-living and stories from the queer community. His personal projects are inspired by artists such as Everything but the Girl, Real Lies, Christine and the Queens and Pet Shop Boys.
Wrapped in the sonic flavours of electro, 90s dance and synth-pop, HULLAH’s work emulates a nocturnal spirit, and is complemented by themes of alienation, ambition and a sense of dejection. His work, though introspective, reaches outward in its delivery, inviting the listener to join the songwriter on a journey as he navigates his way through the noise and distortion of everyday life in a soundstage that comforts and surprises.
Along with Sicily-born Nicole Bullet, HULLAH is also half of the electro pop duo, Futuretape – a songwriting partnership that explores how millennials navigate the digital world, friendships and internet culture. Their music combines a passion for nostalgia and the future and is characterised by 80’s synth-pop and PC music.
When not writing and producing for himself or for Futuretape, HULLAH writes for and with other artists, with his most recent songwriting work having been released by Gabrielle Ornate on her singles Waiting to be Found and Spirit of the Times which garnered national support on BBC Radio and Tom Robinson’s Fresh on the Net.
HULLAH obtained a BA in songwriting at The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP), a course where he explored the relationship between production, sound and lyric. He has also produced tracks in collaboration with the Amy Winehouse Foundation through participation in the Amy’s Yard programme and has been involved in running music workshops at Cardboard Citizens, a charity that supports young people experiencing issues with housing and homelessness – an issue close to the artist’s heart and something he has recently explored in an article he wrote for the i newspaper.
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