Well, this just made a particularly hard couple days a little bit easier.

One of my favorite groups, Hiatus Kaiyote, is back. Their first new offering since their excellent 2021 album Mood Valiant (and its 2022 remix album, Mood Variant), the Australian band has shared “Everything’s Beautiful.” “‘Everything’s Beautiful’ is a testament to the importance of finding simple joy in your day. To me, my happy place is walking around exploring the world with my headphones. I wanted to write something very simple without complex, deep philosophical meaning like most of my writing tends to be,” Nai Palm says. “I wrote the vocal melody and general bass riff in a dream napping on my manager Scott Barkham’s couch in New York one day, and brought it into the waking world which is really hard to do for me. Initially, the dream hook was Berry Street beautiful, but I changed the lyrics when I developed it more with the band. It’s not the delusion that we live in a utopia out here on this planet, but rather about actively looking for the beauty, grace and joy in life.”

Even better? This is the first single from their forthcoming fourth album.

Hiatus Kaiyote Returns With “Everything’s Beautiful” Single was last modified: January 23rd, 2024 by Meka