HALIENE opens a new chapter with her sophomore album, “Eclipsed.” Joy and sorrow often live closer together than one imagines.
There’s no “becoming” in life, after all, without first waving a white flag at events beyond our control.
Across her career, the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter has built a language around the contrast between happiness and heavier-hearted times.
Her music gives voice to the place where love, loss, hope, and transformation cross paths.
Now, with “Eclipsed,” she draws on all of that to create her most personal and expansive body of work yet.
“Eclipsed” follows “Heavenly,” her 2022 debut album.
On this record, HALIENE steps into new stylistic territory while reconnecting with the musical worlds that shaped her beginnings.
Across its fifteen tracks, trance, melodic bass, cinematic electronica, and pop songwriting shift in and out of each other’s shadows.
At its heart, though, “Eclipsed” is an album about what happens when that light changes.
Lyrically, the songs trace loves both found and lost, and identities once surrendered but now reclaimed.
They speak to the people who carry us through our darkest moments.
They also speak to the unexpected perspectives that can emerge from experiences we’d never have chosen ourselves.
Rather than treating darkness as something to simply overcome, “Eclipsed” explores its relationship with the light.
One gives form and meaning to the other, and sorrow so often enhances our capacity to experience joy.
HALIENE describes life as a continual act of yielding to the unknown, from first breath to last.
She hopes these songs become part of listeners’ own stories, bringing meaning to both the troubles and joys of their lives.
Read more: HALIENE and Miyuki Unite on Empowering Single “Voltage”
The Songs That Shaped Eclipsed from HALIENE
That duality runs through the full course of the album. Recent HALIENE singles have already illustrated different sides of its world.
Her collaboration with Ilan Bluestone, “Eclipsed By You,” marked a striking return to HALIENE’s trance roots. The song examines a specific point.
Loving someone so completely can begin to eclipse your own identity.
“Solar Waves,” meanwhile, emerged during a period of physical recovery and creative disconnection.
Its atypically soft vocal performance transformed limitation into intimacy, ultimately helping HALIENE rediscover the joy of creating.
On “Right Love,” she returned cathartically to the melodic bass sound that has long run through her musical DNA.
The song explores the particular ache of meeting the right person at the wrong time.
It confronts a hard reality: some things, though undeniably beautiful and desirable, arrive only to change us rather than stay forever.
Collaboration becomes another source of the album’s rich expressionism elsewhere too.
“Don’t Give Up On Me,” created with Nikademis, grew from HALIENE’s memories of supporting her parents through their battles with cancer.
Its message centers on borrowed strength: becoming someone else’s hope when they can no longer carry their own.
That message finds an equally personal connection in Nikademis’s own experiences with serious illness.
On “Voltage,” Miyuki, known for her “PhD to EDC” journey, joins HALIENE for an altogether different kind of awakening.
Trance synths, techno energy, and 303 drive underscore the song.
It’s about breaking free from expectation. It’s about discovering what we’re truly meant to be, and do.
Inside the Full Eclipsed Tracklist
These previously revealed chapters form only part of “Eclipsed.”
The album moves from its opening title overture through “My Reverie,” “The Other Side,” her Koven collaboration “Orbit,” “Heaven Left A Light On,” “House of Daydreams,” “Dark Side of My Heart,” “Found,” and “The Hymn.”
Throughout, it continually returns to its central theme of illumination and shadow. It reaches its final moment in “Totality.”
The musical landscape today is increasingly shaped by AI and repetitive chart formulas.
Against that backdrop, it’s refreshing to hear an electronic artist determined to push boundaries, both musically and sonically.
On “Eclipsed,” HALIENE resists predictability at every turn, weaving together unexpected genres, shifting time signatures, unconventional modes, and intricate harmonic ideas.
The collision of dubstep and drum & bass with Picardy-third progressions shows up in “The Other Side.”
The 15/4 odd meters and pentuplet polyrhythms of “Dark Side of My Heart” push even further.
Throughout, the album consistently reaches beyond the conventions of modern electronic music.
HALIENE explains that she wanted to push against the trend.
She set out to make music AI could never “dream of,” music with enough humanity, complexity, and unexpected choices that a formula could never generate it.
Yet it still feels seamless, singable, and even danceable.
More than anything, “Eclipsed” is intended to travel beyond its creator.
These are songs born from change, devotion, grief, resilience, uncertainty, and joy, but their meaning doesn’t end with the experiences that created them.
Like an actual eclipse, “Eclipsed” finds beauty not solely in darkness or light, but in the extraordinary and evanescent moments when the two engage with one another.
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