Indie Duo TEME Announce New EP; Share Title Track & Video “HA LF”

UK indie act TEME have officially announced their new EP HA LF will be out July 30th. Accompanying the news, the duo of JJ Hodari and Bo Morgan have shared the poignant and gripping new single and title track. Inspired by the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, and Jon Hopkins, “HA LF” is a song of two parts, as they explore the introspective journey of existence.

Of the new single, TEME said: “HA LF is a song about inner turmoil, the divided self, full of confusion, anger and fear, trying to find the right path forward. The first half of the song encapsulates all of the frustration one feels when they don’t know how to move forward. How the inability to take control of one’s life can induce a ‘cavity’, self-hatred (‘it’s your own damn fault’) and spiralling thoughts (‘it’s like I’m running on repeat’).”

Leading into the second half, the song builds and finds a new energy. The band continues, “After the song builds to its crescendo it dissolves into the kind of deeper, more lucid introspection that comes after any kind of manic episode. There’s an acknowledgement of the situation, a rational look at the triggers, and the self-harm one is causing by acting this way. This song does not end with a resolution of how to make it better. Rather, it ends at Point Zero. It has acknowledged all that is wrong, all that must be avoided, wasting ones life, lying to one’s mother, fading alone, allowing the protagonist to finally move forward.”

Matching its poetic nature, the music video was shot in the Lahinch on the West coast of Ireland in 2020, bringing the beauty of the landscape into the song. Directed by Morgan, he adds, “The two sisters and wonderful actors Muireann Gallen and Cairell Ryan represent the dynamic push and pull which exists in every human being. The video is divided into three parts. The first part displays a unity and natural comfortability between the protagonists, which soon descends into violence and discord in the second. In the third and final act, the negative energy abates, and a deeper union than ever before is formed. The eventual oneness they manage to find between them, represents the possibility within each of us to find our own inner peace, even after the most turbulent times.”

Watch the video below and stay tuned for more music from TEME.