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Halo On The Inside

Circuit des Yeux

Halo On The Inside

Eighth album from the Chicago-based experimental vocalist, composer, and producer Haley Fohr

ADM rating[?]

8.2

Label
Matador
UK Release date
14/03/2025
US Release date
14/03/2025
  1. 10.0 |   musicOMH

    Haley Fohr’s latest is rawer, more physical, an almost visceral exercise in self-discovery and emotional struggle
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  2. 10.0 |   God Is In The TV

    There’s an undeniable confidence here, a convergence of everything Fohr has explored before—the operatic power of -io, the rhythmic momentum of Jackie Lynn, the raw intimacy of her early work.
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  3. 8.5 |   Paste Magazine

    The Chicago-based vocalist works in darkness and electronics across her imaginative eighth album, touching on the possibilities afforded in embracing change
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  4. 8.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Where Reaching for Indigo was inspired by a spiritual experience that left Fohr shaking and vomiting, then Halo on the Inside contains the entity that holds such powers over us. Its name might change, but with its horns and hooves, you will recognise it: let it inside of you!
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  5. 8.4 |   Spectrum Culture

    In the world of Circuit des Yeux, the body and the mind are always working together and always in conflict, each a vehicle and a prison for the other
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  6. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    The study of Fohr’s internal world is cosmic in scope. That could make for an imposing listen, so it’s impressive that the record also stands as her most instantly loveable collection of songs
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  7. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Circuit des Yeux’s work, including her singular voice, conjures the grand epics, the metamorphoses that the ancients whispered and sang about
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  8. 8.0 |   All Music

    Both introspective and commanding, Halo on the Inside charts a path between the club and the cosmos
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  9. 8.0 |   Far Out

    With some of her most accessible material to date mingling with some hauntingly exquisite performances, Halo on the Inside is a grand venture into the unknown for an artist who has not only reinvented herself repeatedly but continues to show bravery in every artistic leap she takes
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  10. 8.0 |   Crack

    On Halo on the Inside, Fohr has found freedom in the perverse. She’s the growling goat-god of our nightmares. In her newly bestial form, she’s never sounded so regenerated and spiritually integrated – so terrifyingly animal and alive
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  11. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    Created in the depth of night, Haley Fohr’s latest studio album sounds like her take on industrial dance music: sludgy, colossal, and teeming with darkness
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  12. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Her strikingly rich, four octave voice is the axis around which producer Andrew Broder has directed dark, ambient, degraded bassmusic, industrial pop and dungeon synth, with feedback and software fubars playing their part. Print edition only


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