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“Freak” WATCH: https://youtu.be/6-Df_wD4YRI?si=SunDqJtTeDyfSa7D LISTEN: https://hydmusic.lnk.to/freak
(April 29th, 2026) - Multidisciplinary artist Hyd (Hayden Dunham) shares new single “Freak”. The song embodies the euphoric feeling of a found connection aided by the striking power of Hyd’s vivid vocals. The single drops alongside one of Hyd’s most ambitious music videos to date, directed by Kelly McCormack. The visual follows Hyd across timelines as they interact with a potentially villainous one eyed intergalactic time traveler. The new single is the final offering from Hyd’s forthcoming album Hold Onto Me Infinity before the full release May 22nd via Cascine.
In addition to the single, Hyd celebrates the opening of their latest solo art show at Company Gallery in NY tomorrow April 30th, titled Never Is Over. Hayden Dunham’s third solo exhibition stages the cosmological tendency towards reconnection through the artist’s most recent explorations in sculpture, video, and sound. In the gallery’s central atrium, hundreds of lilies and hand-written notes float overhead, weightless and free from gravity. A large glass battery sits near the stairwell, its contents leaking down to the gallery’s lower level, where a ladder made of water connects the floor and ceiling. Throughout the installation, a diaphanous score blends whale songs with the 526 hertz frequency of a black hole, a sonic register believed to aid cell regeneration. Unassuming vessels placed throughout the gallery contain the recorded voices of the departed, with connections to the artist ranging from the personal to the inspirational (Octavia Butler, Pippa Garner, Marsha P. Johnson, Radclyffe Hall, Sacha Kozlow, Sally Ride, William Winter, Sophie Xeon). These sounds can only be heard if the objects themselves are broken open, the light sensitive contents inside are unlocked by the sun, and the voices set free.
Zooming between the intimate and the infinite, the album Hold Onto Me Infinity is a powerful testament to music’s ability to cross timelines, physical thresholds, and lifespans, while dancing in between this physical world, and the one beyond. Dunham emerged with a powerful record that channels grief into a study of how love persists beyond the limits of flesh—and through a process of transmutation can be alchemized into heat, rhythm, vapor, and light.
“Freak” follows previous singles “Watch You Cry” and “Angel,” the latter which was produced by Hudson Mohawke. The album also includes additional collaborations with Benny Long, Saint Patrick, Finn Keane, Tjorvi, Marcus Andersson, Michael Bailey-Gates and Bobbi Salvör Menuez.
With Hold Onto Me Infinity there is a physicality reflected in the album’s drum-forward sonic palette, where the vibrations are designed to be felt in the listeners’ bodies as much as they are heard. The album cover, shot by Michael Bailey Gates, reflects this liminal blur between the existential and elemental. Made without artificial effects, it uses a glass sculpture made by Dunham, pyrotechnics, mirror reflections, and a sunset poking through a pierced window to create a portal within the image that holds both this physical reality and another world. This analog approach was a necessity that emerged out of Dunham’s intermittent loss of vision over the past seven years, which made them extremely sensitive to artificial light. This condition continues to have profound impacts on their senses: when their sight receded, other (extra)-sensory skills emerged; when it returned, they felt extra-embodied in their body and the juiciness of being.
Hold Onto Me Infinity is the follow up album to Hayden’s celebrated debut CLEARING. Informed by their wider artistic practice, Hyd’s music is the result of interior research, community dialogues and material exploration creating an immense ecosystem. Dunham’s work as a fine artist has been exhibited at museums including MoMA PS1 and the New Museum.
Listen to “Freak” above and find full album details below. | 
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