HIS HIS SIGNS WITH VICTORY POOL FOR NEW SINGLE, “OUTSIDE”
His His is the recording project of Toronto-based artist Aidan Belo. He combines elements of Greenwich Village-inspired folk, contemporary indie folk, coupled with low-fidelity analog production to create something that sounds honest and melancholic.
Today, he shares the new single, “Outside” which
“started out as a little chord loop from an omnichord that I got at an auction,” says Belo. “I added guitars, bass, drums, ran them through my cassette deck and was sitting on this instrumental track for a while. This winter, I was hanging out with my bandmate at his place in Parkdale after a band practice. We then went to a bar called Pharmacy and at the end of the night I was going to call an Uber home but it was a bit expensive ($50 or so) because of the snowstorm that had just started. I ended up walking about an hour and a half home, trudging through the snow. At some point in the walk I came up with the vocal melody that would become ‘Outside’. I got home, partially thawed, and in a frenzy, tracked the vocals and wrote the lyrics. It’s about walking through what felt like a completely empty city at the time and reflecting on some of my friends who have left Toronto for good.”