Hermetic Delight Share ‘Adding Insult to Injury’ from ‘Vagabond Melodies’
Hermetic Delight’s ‘Adding Insult to Injury’ comes from ‘Vagabond Melodies,’ the band’s second album released last November via October Tone, but the video feels like like a late-night detour you didn’t plan on taking.
Directed by Laurens Saint-Gaudens and produced by Tamara Films, it opens without ceremony. Two bodies, shaken and not fully put back together, played by Atef Aouadhi and Delphine Padilla. No clean reset. No sense that whatever happened is actually over.
‘Vagabond Melodies’ plays like a set caught between stations, nine pieces drifting in and out as if the band’s chasing a signal instead of locking one down. There’s a loose hand at work here, instinct over arrangement, letting the light brush up against something more nocturnal without announcing the shift. ‘Adding Insult to Injury’ sits in that darker pocket, not as an outlier, but as proof the whole record was leaning that way all along, just waiting for the right moment to show its teeth.
And Hermetic Delight is currently on a European tour:
20.04 — Kraków, PL — Pub Pod Ziemią
21.04 — Přerov, CZ — Psychedelic Umami
22.04 — Budapest, HU — Szimpla Kert
23.04 — Przemyśl, PL — Fort XXII
24.04 — Gliwice, PL — Cechownia
25.04 — Banská Bystrica, SK — Zahrada
26.04 — Nowy Sącz, PL — Spóźniony Słowik
16.05 — Giessen, DE — Bands of Friends
22.05 — Marseille, FR — L’Intermédiaire
24.05 — Pau, FR — Le Pingouin Alternatif
13.06 — Stuttgart, DE — About Pop Festival
Headline photo: Bartosch Salmanski
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