Today, California-based artist Ded Hyatt shares “GT80,” the latest single from their debut album Glossy, due out October 11. Casting an elusive melodic sensibility reminiscent of enigmatic pop innovators from Peter Gabriel to mk.gee atop cavernous sci-fi synths, “GT80” surveys a gulf of emotionality between two romantic partners and the alienation it creates.

Listen to “GT80” here.

Spanning pointillist folk, melancholic mumble rap-via-Brian Eno vocal runs, and prismatic and gut-spilling R&B, Glossy —  co-produced by urika’s bedroom and Shamik Ganguly — reconfigures an exploded life with an imagistic and collagist poetic sensibility. It’s a daring and deeply personal depiction of trauma’s collective toll. Throughout, Ded Hyatt confronts his most destructive patterns with an artfully depicted but raw sense of honesty, and an expressive command of his voice.

Pre-order / pre-save Glossy here.

Born in Mountain View, CA to a Jewish-American mother and an Iranian father, Hyatt often felt between worlds. “I have never felt at home in any one culture; I have always felt like an outlier. In white and Jewish circles, I’ve been exoticized — in Persian circles, I’m the American white boy.” His mother exposed him to melodic songcraft of R&B from Motown to Usher, his father the expressive voices of traditional Persian balladry.

A post-collegiate hike along the Pacific Crest Trail helped Hyatt realize his desire to be an artist. “I decided that music and writing were the only things I genuinely cared about, so I moved to LA with my girlfriend at the time and started making an album and writing a screenplay. I quickly realized that I dreaded sitting down to work on the screenplay and was obsessed with working on the album, so I dropped screenwriting and dedicated myself to music full time.”

While hiking the PCT, he fixated on the name Ded Hyatt, a play on Arabic and Farsi homonyms. “I liked that these beautiful Farsi and Arabic words were hiding in plain sight in the name of a white corporate hotel chain,” Hyatt elaborates. “I also find hotels to be very surreal places— most of my dreams take place in hotels.”

“GT80” is the third preview from Glossy. Lead single “Devotion” casts heart-rending balladry and Frippertronics across a landscape of peculiar, futuristic texture as it sketches out a poisonous relationship dynamic, while “Chlorine” is recombinant folk-pop that examines the pernicious allure of nostalgia.