About

HELLO, WORLD.

HLLLYH is an experimental pop band based in the San Francisco Bay that was founded by people from Southern California.

HLLLYH still believes in the California myth, and it wants you to believe in it, too.

HLLLYH traffics in colors, angles, and magic.

HLLLYH is an attempt to communicate with very old gods.

HLLLYH chooses its words very carefully.

HLLLYH speaks in machine language and Morse code as well as natural languages.

HLLLYH is best not pronounced at all.

HLLLYH sees two futures ahead — one bright, and one terrifying — and is unsure which is the true future.

HLLLYH has considerable training and experience in the old ways but has enormous respect and curiosity for the new ways.

HLLLYH is driven by person-to-person moments of experience.

HLLLYH is a heartfelt attempt to save at least one life.

HLLLYH is sincerely trying to make something that exists on multiple planes.

HLLLYH seeks space in your brain.

HLLLYH would like to be your friend.

HLLLYH is preoccupied with Twentieth Century Music.

HLLLYH believes that, for all its flaws, the music industry of the 1950s to 2010s was the single greatest interactive art experience in humankind.

HLLLYH knows humankind is doomed.

HLLLYH knows we are a dead clade.

HLLLYH is glad you’re alive.