Hataałii’s Expanded Edition of Acclaimed LP ‘Waiting For A Sign:’ Out Today
PRAISE FOR Hataałii
“Signals a young artist who has come into his own...an exhilarating listen.”
“A dreamy, psychedelic fusion of indie-rock and melancholic pop, with a hint of dusty country in the mix...Waiting For A Sign effortlessly flows straight to the heart.”
“A slow-burning throwback to doo-wop jams and cloudy DIY concoctions…jangly guitars and shimmering synths lead the way.”
“Alternates between surrealist, cryptic and heartfelt lyrics – often within the same verse – to create impressionistic washes…Hataałii is painting the sunset of America.”
“A haunting modern masterpiece...nobody in this realm resounds with the textural rigors of modern life quite like Hataałii and his haunted grooves.”
“Timeless and haunting...captures the quiet beauty of solitude and the weight of living in a world that feels like it’s slowly unraveling.”
“Hataałii’s music unfolds like a sprawling desert at dusk — vast and endless, yet tinged with a haunting intimacy that pulls you into its depths.”
“A collection of pensive country meditations on the American Southwest.”
TRACKLIST
1. Alex Jones
2. Brown Fool Eyes
3. Love Is Over
4. Ballad of Athabaskan Theory
5. In My Lawn
6. Burn
7. Go Ahead and Try
8. Near the Sea
9. Buckskin Boy
10. Something’s in the Air
11. Minds Didn’t Show Alike
12. She Held My Arm
13. For A Little While
14. Bring Me Down
15. Fireplace
Waiting For A Sign (Expanded Edition) is out now, buy/stream it here.
Today, Hataałii (pronounced: hah – toth – lee) — the 21 year old artist from Window Rock, AZ that has attracted a following as “a master at conjuring a kind of Southwestern saudade” (Aquarium Drunkard) — releases an expanded edition of his critically-acclaimed recent album Waiting For A Sign, a heady collection of ghost town anthems, short story mirages, and brain fog-clearing personal reckonings. Waiting For A Sign (Expanded Edition) is out now on Dangerbird Records with three new tracks. Listen to Waiting For A Sign (Expanded Edition) here.
As Hataałii metes out his careful, artful lyrics that revel in uncanny particularities and the desire to know the unknowable, Waiting For A Sign recalls the playfully languid puzzlement of Pavement circa-Wowee Zowee, the trickster melancholy of Lou Reed’s The Blue Mask, and the economical yet winking earnestness of Blaze Foley.
But, as easy as the tempos can get, Hataałii operates with purpose: the obscurantist details come into focus, giving way to trenchant observations about paranoia, accountability, and post-colonial fallout. See the perfect example of this in the recent video (directed by Lonnie Begaye) for the propulsive, new wave-inflected loner’s soliloquy “Buckskin Boy” from the album, over at FLOOD.
Waiting For A Sign is Hataałii’s second album for Dangerbird following 2023’s Singing Into Darkness and, counting an array of self-released projects, his sixth album since 2019. Singing Into Darkness won plaudits from SPIN (who called him “2023’s breakout star”), FLOOD (“Hataałii is utterly charming, disarmingly approachable, and delightful in his playfulness”), and KCRW, and was named one of Aquarium Drunkard’s favorite albums of the year. Earlier his fall, Hataałii hit the road with The Osees, The Slaps, Dirt Rhodes, and more.
Read the full album bio here.
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