Hiatus Kaiyote share latest song and video "Red Room"

Melbourne-based group Hiatus Kaiyote share a new song and video from their forthcoming album Mood Valiant, out June 25th via Brainfeeder Records / Ninja Tune. Written in an act of spontaneous composition, "Red Room" was born out of a bass and drum groove by band members Paul Bender and Perrin Moss when the group went to Rio De Janeiro in 2019 to work with legendary Brazilian arranger Arthur Verocai, who features on their previously-released single "Get Sun."

Hiatus Kaiyote is Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys), and Perrin Moss (drums). Their new album, Mood Valiant, is the follow up to their 2015 album Choose Your Weapon, which Rolling Stone described as "a stunning step up." The new project comes after being sampled on songs by The Carters (Beyonce & Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Chance The Rapper, and Drake—with whom Nai Palm also collaborated with on his Scorpion album.

Speaking about how the new song "Red Room" came together Nai shares, “My vocal booth had a red light in it, and I was thinking about my old house that had all this red-colored glass in it. When the sun set in my room at a certain hour my whole room was red.” According to Bender, it was the quickest thing the band had ever recorded from conception to finish. Perrin adds: “Essentially it was just having fun, man. We were warm, we were in another country. Of course, not knowing there was a big pandemic coming, the context of the ‘red room’ now and what that means to everyone sitting in isolation is kind of relevant.”

Hiatus Kaiyote made their return in 2021 with “Get Sun” featuring Arthur Verocai, receiving acclaim globally from Pitchfork, NME, Rolling Stone, The Fader and more, as well as airplay support across Double J, triple j and community radio stations. In celebration of the single and as part of Record Store Day, “Get Sun” will receive a 12” release. Available exclusively to Australia and Japan, the record will be available for purchase in participating retailers on Record Store Day on Saturday, June 12th.

The completion of Mood Valiant coincided with the COVID pandemic. In the Great Pause, the band found more time to tweak, and more time to create. The ups and downs, the starts and stops of the process, inform the very name of the album, for which Nai evoked, again, the spirit of her mother, Suzie Ashman: “My mother had two Valiant station wagons, iconic, vintage Aussie cars,” Nai says. “One was white and one was black. And depending on what mood she was in, she would drive one or the other. She was a single mother with six kids: If she drove the black one, you knew not to fuck with her.”

“The title of the album really encapsulates the whole spectrum of the journey,” Bender adds. “Everyone’s been through some big challenges. I feel like we charged through the mud to get this thing done. And there’s just this valiant, victorious feeling, coming out of storm into calm waters. The sun is shining, we see the shore. We did that! I feel proud of the way this sounds, the emotional depth of it. And I hope that it brings people some sort of comfort in this hard time.”

Hiatus Kaiyote recently announced their Mood Valiant Australian tour, where audiences across the country will be amongst the first to experience the highly anticipated record. Playing at some of the most beloved venues in Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane, tickets are available now and moving fast, so visit Hiatus Kaiyote's Official Store for more information. Hiatus Kaiyote will also return to festival stages in the coming months, playing at Melbourne’s April Sun Festival on May 2nd before heading to Imbil, QLD for Jungle Love Festival from May 14 - May 16.

Listen to and watch "Red Room" today, find further album details below, and stay tuned for more from Hiatus Kaiyote coming soon.