Terrell Hines releases video for new single ‘Promise’ Inbox

Today Terrell Hines releases the song and video for ‘Promise’. He will release 3 additional subsequent tracks in the coming weeks, leading up to his debut mixtape – ‘Portal One’ released on Virgin/ Capitol Records on August 7^th. There will be a visual component for all tracks included on the mixtape. While in quarantine he’s shooting his own videos via a green screen and ingenuity.

Watch the video HERE / Listen HERE

This single and subsequent mixtape follows his debut EP ‘St. Mark Road’ that was released at the tailend of 2019. An artist’s artist, he featured on the title track of Beck’s latest “Hyperspace” and is an accomplished songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer with influences as broad as Outkast, Joy Division, Four Tet, Migos, Kendrick and more. The Berklee College of Music gave Hines a full ride, and people’s first exposure to his music was chosen to be used in the 2019 Apple keynote. Without releasing an album or touring in the U.S. yet, he’s amassed more than 2 million streams.

The concept that drives his music — an even split of postmodern and post-apocalyptic — is how he funnels all his obsessions into what he does best. He’s a renaissance man who can be found devouring books on linguistics, synesthesia, or evolutionary psychology in his downtime. Or considering which metals one would want to gather following a catastrophe, then actually sampling those metals in the studio. “I’m trying to engineer the future,” says Hines.

Terrell’s music contains multitudes, and not just in the obvious way that it blurs all manner of genres into one big urgent, beautiful, hyper-dynamic ball of energy. Yes, the core of his sound is a living mix of eerie soul, alt-pop, hip-hop, post-punk, and southern funk, but Hines is a world-builder with a voracious mind. This Georgia-born, Los Angeles-based visionary has created an entire ecosystem for his songs, where sonic structures and lyrics are just as likely to be inspired by the socio-political as they are the personal, by functional architecture as abstract art, by the austere science of survivalism as the limitless potential of technology. The best part is, you don’t have to know all that to feel the holistic magic of Hines’ work. We hear immediacy, exuberance, freedom, and ingenuity — music as surprising as it is captivating — while he sees a burning question: “If shit popped off and society had to be rebuilt,” asks Hines, “how would I do it?”

Look out for future releases ahead of the ‘Portal One’ mixtape on August 7^th.

‘Promise’ artwork

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