Hanry – Aurora
HANRY are a five-piece from Brittany — Jean-Anaël Aubaux and Hadrien Benazet on guitars, Anthony Leliard on bass and guitar, Marc Mifune on piano and synth, Clément Champigny on drums — and we’ve had our eye on them since W48 2024. Now they’ve announced their debut album What Came From Silence, due May 29th via Pelagic Records. Lead single “Aurora” is out now.
The song has an unusually long backstory for a debut album track. Leliard composed the original sketch around ten years ago, at the very beginning of the project. It’s been sitting in the catalogue ever since, waiting for the right version. The band reshaped and arranged it collectively for the album, and that process shows — it doesn’t feel like a demo that got polished up, it feels like a piece that found its form. As the band describe it: “Dark and tense, ‘Aurora’ moves through contrasting periods, from heavy, shadowed moments to brighter, more radiant passages”. Clean tones give way to distortion; quiet passages accelerate into something heavier. What I find effective is that it never rushes — the tension accumulates slowly enough that when the release comes, it actually registers.
Production is self-handled: J.A. and Champigny both work as sound engineers, and the album was recorded and mixed at their own DiscoCasino Studio. Mastering went to Chab at Chab Mastering. It’s the kind of setup that gives post-rock bands room to get obsessive about texture, and What Came From Silence sounds like they used that freedom well. The album was written during a long Breton winter, which tracks — it carries that kind of shut-in, low-light atmosphere throughout its eight tracks. Closing track “Phantom Rush” features pianist Mariposa as a collaborator. Artwork was designed by French artist Aloïs Lecerf.
Tracklist:
- Noise Drowns Out
- Aurora
- Dustwake
- Her Crown, Her Empire
- Remains
- Time’s Collapsing
- Dead Waves
- Phantom Rush
Tour Dates Europe:
- August – Pelagic Fest (more dates TBA)
