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HYD

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Hayden Dunham's project, where PC Music gloss dissolves into something weightless and half-submerged — avant-pop as a slow exhale.

HYD is the solo project of Hayden Dunham, an American artist who works across sculpture, installation and performance as well as music. Dunham first appeared in a pop context as the face and voice of QT, the collaborative project with SOPHIE and A. G. Cook released through PC Music in 2014.

The HYD material, also issued via PC Music, moves away from that project's hyper-bright sugar rush toward something slower and more diffuse: processed vocals, ambient textures and pop melodies left half-dissolved. A self-titled EP arrived in 2021, followed by the album Clearing. The work sits close to Dunham's visual practice, which is often concerned with materials, bodies and transformation.

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