What are we doing here ?
We’ve done this dance too many times
Enigmatic synthpop artist Hermidgets returns with Fall Apart, the first single heralding his third album, following NIHIL (2024) and his debut, The Mire (2020). Fall Apart furthers Hermidgets’ exploration into emotionally raw electronic music, combining spectral melodies, dance rhythms, and unfiltered vulnerability.
Fall Apart wrestles eloquently with the quiet tragedy of repeating cycles, those relationships forever spinning toward self-destruction yet persistently revived. Hermidgets orchestrates a nocturnal atmosphere, both cinematic and quietly personal, capturing the essence of bonds doomed by familiarity and fatigue. Returning home inspires nostalgia laced with a resigned disillusionment, a bittersweet ache for lost intimacy overshadowed by the confusion of revisiting painful routines.
Situated sonically between late-era Depeche Mode, Le Der Est, and Mareux, Fall Apart affirms Hermidgets’ hallmark style: elegant darkness infused with humanity. Hermidgets, shrouded in intentional anonymity and indifferent to fleeting musical fashions, emphasizes solitude as his primary creative companion. This release hints at an artistic evolution gradually taking shape.
“I don’t believe in telling people what to feel. The music has to speak for itself, without my face in the way,” says Hermidgets. “This song is a mirror – it reflects whatever you bring into it.”
Accompanying the release is a starkly poetic black-and-white DIY video. The visuals swiftly move through blurred vignettes of the artist dancing alone in isolated natural landscapes; trees and riverbanks offering fragmented glimpses into memory. The intentional camera instability enhances the fleeting quality of the imagery, each frame hovering between intimacy and detachment.
“I wanted it to feel like a fleeting presence,” Hermidgets explains. “The camera never fully settles. It’s not about clarity—it’s about feeling.”
True to his steadfast DIY ethos and sparse visual aesthetic, the monochrome video complements the song’s emotional themes of solitude, cyclicality, and fragmentation…inviting contemplation without simple resolution. Fall Apart resonates as an expression of emotional truths that, though elusive, remain profoundly universal.
Watch the video for “Fall Apart” below:
Fall Apart was mixed by Matteo Sandri, known for his work with Sananda Maitreya, and mastered by Giovanni Versari (Muse). Listen to the single below and order Fall Apart here.
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