Art pop collective Hello Forever have released their new music video for “I Want To Marry You,” the latest single from their debut album Whatever It Is, out February 21st, 2020. An unabashed love song about connecting with yourself and others, “I Want To Marry You” radiates with Hello Forever’s signature harmonies and jovial, 60s-influenced sound. Watch the video now below.
Discussing how the track came to fruition, front man Samuel Joseph shares, “It was a perfect late April afternoon and the sun was ripe and I suddenly felt so much tenderness in the relationship between everything around me.” He continues, “It’s seeing eternity inside someone and seeing their place in eternity at the same time. It’s that wow, yes, magic warm feeling and you gotta celebrate it right now because after this it might be nothing forever.”
“I Want To Marry You” follows the collective’s previously released singles “Colors In The Sky,” “Anywhere Is Everywhere,” which Ones To Watch praised as “a true sonic gift from the gods,” and “Some Faith.” Hello Forever has also received early praise from KCRW and buzzbands.la who state the group “engage in the business of making feel-good music” as they incorporate elements reminiscent of the 1960s.
To understand the joyous, communal music of Hello Forever, one must make a pilgrimage to the very top of Topanga, CA, an isolated piece of land once used by the infamous Sandstone Retreat and free-love nudist commune once frequented by the likes of Sammy Davis Jr. There, Joseph has gathered what he calls an art pop collective that harks back to ’60s ideals of peace and love with a DIY approach to music and creativity which spawned their remarkable debut album, Whatever It Is. The release combines a wide range of influences from doo-wop and jazz to skiffle and R&B while elaborate arrangements juxtapose concise songs across this laptop-age “pocket symphony.”
Joseph and his merry band of cohorts have created at once a throwback to the promise of revolution and a set of songs that established a new ideal of brother-and-sisterhood, exquisite harmonies and a hope for the future. Hello Forever’s music is inextricable with the lifestyle and spiritual goals of its participants, a revolving membership that also includes, at various times, collaborators drummer/co-founder Andy Jimenez, Molly Pease, Jaron Crespi, Joey Briggs, and Anand Darsie. The collective encompasses all that is good in the world, allowing music to be both abstract and meaningful without judging what comes out. Through songs about romantic love, serving as allegories for spirituality, Whatever It Is represents the first chapter of what promises to be an epic narrative from Hello Forever.