HEAR: Indie Pop | Harmony – “Yesterday”
Los Angeles’ Harmony shares her new standalone single “Yesterday.” The song follows the release of Harmony’s critically acclaimed debut solo EP Dystopia Girl, which arrived this summer via Harmony’s Fantasy Corp. With emotionally in-tune lyrics and shimmering pop production, “Yesterday” book ends a successful, watershed year for the singer-songwriter. Paired with the single, Harmony shares the video shot by Ayodeji and assisted by Charlie Brady.
Harmony recently played to audiences in New York City, Los Angeles and London where she performed the new single along with the Dystopia Girl project in intimate settings. Additionally, Harmony’s song “I Am So Lucky And Nothing Can Stop Me” was used in Sandy Liang’s New York Fashion Week show this past September.
A Libra through and through, Harmony is obsessed with balance and the union of opposites. The Angeleno’s debut solo project is a reflection of just that; composed of both ballads and bops, traversing themes of certainty and doubt, mysticism and cynicism, and fantasy and reality. It is at once viscerally passionate and gracefully impartial; both gravely serious and tongue-in-cheek frivolous. The Dystopia Girl EP is a compact emotional whirlwind of euphoric highs and devastating lows felt to their fullest and presented in perfect harmony. Dystopia Girl includes “Shoplifting From Nike,” which was produced with Wyatt Bernard and Austin Corona and arrived with a playful video directed by Morgan Maher and “Good Things Take Time,” which arrived with a video also directed by Maher and was produced by Bernard, Dylan Brady, Francis Brady and Micah Jasper and was mixed by Kayla Regan.
Harmony is a singer-songwriter who has made a name for herself with her poignant lyrics and delicate, evocative voice. As one half of canonical indie band Girlpool, Harmony’s songwriting has often been praised for its striking honesty and emotional clarity. With her foray into pop music, she brings the same poetical fervor and olympic emotion. Harmony delves into the complexities of the human experience with a depth and sensitivity that is rare in the pop music landscape.
Born and raised in Hollywood, amidst a chimerical bricolage of glimmering fantasy and brutal destitution, Harmony has always been taken by contrast. Glitz and grime abreast, her hometown prompts questions of artifice and authenticity, instilling in her a belief that being is a creative act. Navigating this tentative relationship with reality, Harmony sings of infinity worlds, reality restarts, and angel kisses from the next dimension. Equally at ease with the introspective and personal, Harmony gives us “taxidermy daydreams” and “laxative bliss” in her musings on body image and femininity.
