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“Watch You Cry” LISTEN: https://hydmusic.lnk.to/WatchYouCry
(April 8th, 2026) - Multidisciplinary artist Hyd (Hayden Dunham) shares new single “Watch You Cry.” The song opens with a stuttering production bed and a spoken word refrain that bleeds into an ethereal chorus release. An undeniably refined and subtle outing from Hyd, about which they share, “Tears are a special interest of mine. I love that the matter inside us is the same as the ocean. When I was working on this song I asked an astronaut who had returned from her first mission in space what it was like to cry in space and she said because of the surface tension, the tears collect around your eyes and it burns. You have to physically wipe them away and the molecules stay together in the air. They don’t drip or fall. I love thinking about suspended tears in space and the ocean below being held by gravity to earth. There is something about crying on earth where the liquid is returned upward. Where the tears evaporate on your hot face and go somewhere that then are returned again. I love being a part of this larger cycle. And I do that by crying.”
“Watch You Cry” is another taste of Hyd’s dynamic, forthcoming album Hold Onto Me Infinity due May 22nd via Cascine. Zooming between the intimate and the infinite, the album 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.
“Watch You Cry” follows previous single “Angel,” produced by Hudson Mohawke, which came alongside a video directed by Tourmaline, with creative direction by Bobbi Salvor Menuez, movement direction by Monica Mirabile, edited by Hedia Maron, and cinematography by Aimee Goguen.
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 and their forthcoming show at Company Gallery in NY will be debuting April 30th. | 
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