If Once We Lose This Light

1. Until Even the Wind is Afraid
2. Since By Your Eyes Slain, Buried In Your Breath
3. These Bloody Days Have Broken my Heart
4. Let All I Have Lived Be as if it Were a Dream
5. What Comes Before Is More Painful Than Death Itself (postlude: The Moment Has Come…)
6. Irises (Ryan Math Re)mix)
7. Widening Gyres (Miniature Airlines Remix)
8. Let All I Have Lived Be As If It Were A Dream (The Googly’s Clubbed Mix)
9. More Painful Than Death Itself (Dunked In Naturebot’s Acid Bath)

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The third full-length album from Hjalti is finally here, and it’s a monster. The evolutionary changes apparent between Winter Asks What We Did in the Summer and the follow-up, And Will You Leave Me Thus… have accelarated with this release, giving us a glimpse of a gorgeous and terrifying vision. Chords stretch and drag, pulled like tides reacting to some distant mass, while thundering drums press in from all around, deeper and more intense with every track. Respite is momentary, but oh so sweet. Then comes more crushing darkness…

Include remixes by Ryan Math, Miniature Airlines, the Googly, and Naturebot.

Available for purchase on CD for $8 including domestic shipping, or as a digital download for $5.

the Arrivals & Departures Remixes

1. Calm Canaries (Intro)
2. Girlish (For a Strong Woman, Courtesy of Naturebot)
3. Survive to See Another Day (Lawford Rotter Remix)
4. Slow Suicide (In Circles Edit by NQ)
5. To Wake From A Deep, Deep Sleep (The Googly’s Remix)
6. Slit Wrists (Hjalti Remix)
7. In Girlish Curiosty (Specta Ciera Remix)
8. Horses Never Know The Odds (Broken Clock’s Oddly Horsish Mix)
9. Slow Suicide (Benjamin Dauer’s Half Asleep Mix)
10. Cankles (Miniature Airlines Remix)

Arrivals & Departures

1. To Wake From A Deep, Deep Sleep
2. Horses Never Know The Odds
3. Jazz Hands
4. Slow Suicide
5. Car Crashers
6. Our Hope Is Limitless
7. In Girlish Curiosity
8. A Heart Worth Breaking
9. False Memories
10. Slender Wrists
11. Survive To See Tomorrow

And Will You Leave Me Thus? Say No. Say No. Say No.

1. In This Vale Of Tears We Are All Shadows
2. The Stars Are Scattered Thinly And The Cold Space Seeps In
3. I Have Labored In Vain, I Have Spent My Strength For Naught And In Vain
4. Stay By Me My Star, Do Not Fall My Star
5. Til a The Seas Gang Dry, And The Rocks Melt In The Sun (I Will Love Thee Still)
6. They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven (Miniature Airlines Remix)
7. In This Vale (The Naturebot’s Galactic Wank Remix)

Full album with Artwork: 79.2mb .ZIP file

From deep, deep bass, welling up from nothingness, to the harsh metallic screams that herald some vague apocalypse, this new Hjalti album is a journey of extremes. The absolute cold of space, with it’s stillness and silence, and heat so fierce it will melt rocks (and your speakers), all of it has a place in Hjalti’s second full-length album. And Will You Leave Me Thus? Say No. Say No. Say No. is rounded out with remixes from Miniature Airlines (who took pieces from each track and combined them into one dark epic) and the Naturebot (appearing courtesy of Pleasure Boat Records, with a cosmic revision of his own). Special thanks also to the inimitable Droomstyyg, for providing guest vocals.

First Snows & Last Leaves

1. First Snows of Summer
2. Last Leaves of Spring
3. Flying Flakes (The Celibacy Club Remix)
4. 35°N 76°E/Hunda Causeway (The Quarry Stone Remix)
5. Indian Summer (Hjalti Remix)
6. It’s Cold Outside But Warm In Here (Utofbu Remix)

Full album with Artwork: 43.6mb .ZIP file

Miniature Airlines returns, and this time he’s brought friends. First Snows & Last Leaves finds him exploring the seasonal moodiness of the Northwest, with two tracks of lush electronic pop. Also along for the ride are fellow Northwesterners the Celibacy Club, with a deeper, darker version; The Quarry Stone gives us a harmonically twisted yet uplifting IDM revision; D.iscontent comrade Hjalti smashes the track to splinters, then using those splinters as a framework for something entirely different; and finally Utofbu, with a hard swing reworking of the B-side.

Perestroika

1. Miniature Airlines: The Distant You
2. Miniature Airlines: The Distended Ewe (Hjalti Remix)
3. Hjalti: Like A Flame, I Flickered; Like The Tide, You Drifted Away
4. Hjalti: The Tide Returns To Extinguish The Flame (Miniature Airlines Remix)

Full album with Artwork: 29.6mb .ZIP file

Perestroika is the Russian word for “Restructuring”, and that’s exactly what’s happening on this split release. There are two new tracks here, one each from Miniature Airlines and Hjalti, and two remixes, with each artist eviscerating and re-working the other’s original. It’s a surprisingly varied release that doesn’t fit easily into a single genre. At certain points, it’s dark and experimental, but soon enough becomes slick and dancefloor friendly. Skittery IDM beats collide with four on the floor house kicks, easily evading classification.

Winter Asks What We Did In The Summer

1. The three dots hang in the air like ghosts of words unsaid…
2. Dædum gedēfe, draēm-healdende…
3. When I wake up in the middle of the night there is always a cold space beside me…
4. Like a flame I flickered; like the tide, you drifted away…
5. The pain that this light causes my eyes tells me I am not dreaming…
6. Let the white light take us…

Download Full Album as .ZIP file (53.7 MBs)

This is the first full release of Hjalti. The title is a Roma proverb that I think encapsulates the feeling of the album perfectly. The songs are looking back to a summer full of promise from a winter where those promises need justification. The album moves from a sparse to a denser sound-scape as winters questions are answered more fully. My fundamental influences (Proem, Gridlock) as well as more recent influences (Burzum, Efterklang) are very apparent throughout the album. In the end I could have continued to work on this album for ever but I guess releases are a good snapshot of where I am at this point and time.

Some Summers Don’t Need Answers

1. Like a Flame I Flickered; Like the Tide, You Drifted Away
2. The three dots hang in the air like ghosts of words unsaid…
3. Windows 98 (beta version)

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This EP is a sneak peak at the new album “Winter Asks What We Did in the Summer”, featuring alternate mixes and early versions of the album tracks, plus the first song Hjalti ever wrote when he was a sophomore in high school.