WL//WH Video Of The Day: HUSH “Funhouse” (Official Video)

WL//WH Video Of The Day HUSH

Hush, the Montreal, Quebec-based Psychedelic Dream Pop trio made of Paige Barlow (vocals, lyrics), Miles Dupire-Gagnon (synths, drums, percussion), and Gabriel Lambert (bass, guitar, synths), limbers up for the May 22nd release of their debut studio album, “Phasing,” with an Official Video by Paige Barlow herself for the band’s third and final single, “Funhouse,” via Simone Records.

Drawing from artists like Broadcast, The Velvet Underground, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Air, Portishead, Ariel Pink, and blurring genre boundaries while weaving elements of jazz, art rock, synth-pop, Krautrock, surf, and indie rock into its psychedelic foundation, Hush keeps things anchored with undeniable melodic hooks and masterful songwriting: one ear to the cosmos, one ear to the fertile ground of rock and roll.

Built on interlocking, varispeed-treated guitars, arpeggiated synths, and drums that shift between motorik pulse, house-inflected rhythms, and dissolving trip-hop grooves, “Funhouse” is a lush, shape-shifting dream-pop track. Recorded largely live, with various elements re-amplified via a Leslie speaker for its swirling, three-dimensional feel – the song balances precision with a space-altering looseness.

Lyrically, the song probes the faith placed in systems meant to explain the world – romance, religion, identity – long after their answers begin to thin. As Barlow puts it, it’s “a theatrically messy interpretation of romance – a sequel to love learned.”

Smoothing down charged feelings of abandonment, combined with a lack of identity and an internal disconnect between sensations and sight, into a mellow and lustered atmospheric meandering of lush arpeggiated synth melodies, spiraling guitar glimmers, and gauzy, spectral swelling pads, stirred by shuffling percussion grooves and round bass pulses,

“Funhouse” sways with ever-changing intensity around vibrant, hushed vocal harmonies, daintily singing with gloom and angst, to contour an intimate, unpredictable mindspace caught between hope and despair, clarity and confusion, comfort and disease.

photo by Aabid Youssef

It’s about the confidence people place in systems that promise meaning. They can start to feel like answers from a Magic 8-Ball—you shake it, wait for clarity, and sometimes the answer is just: try again later.Paige says

In the visuals directed and filmed by Paige Barlow herself, looped lyrics appear to scroll in and out of an eye to sync with the themes of perception and distortion expressed in the soundtrack. The input changes from blue and flickering, like a computer screen, to a warm yellow incandescent glow. Lenses change between prismatic, over-saturated, inverted, and colorless to transform eyesight interpretation into a “Funhouse” of jumbled ideas that don’t necessarily fit into a specific worldview.

Hush’s debut album, “Phasing”, is scheduled to be released on May 22, 2026, via Simone Records.

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