Los Angeles band Hello Stranger release the video for “stellar” (-V13) single “True Belief”, about the commodification of rebellion. It is the title track of their forthcoming EP due August 26th.
On the heels of 2021’s Social Dissonance, this year brings the 3 song True Belief EP, born out of the pandemic. Sam Deffenbaugh (vocals/guitars/keys) said:
We had these incredibly topical, salient songs we had been working on for months, but it was difficult to get into studios or collaborate with producers‘True Belief’ calls out these hypocrisies.
As many other artists did during that time, we decided to do it ourselves.
Hello Stranger was formed in a dusty Los Angeles rehearsal studio in 2015. After moving to L.A., Sam Deffenbaugh (singer/guitarist) was joined by acclaimed musicians Alex Monfort (Kenny Y Los Electricos, Kenny Aviles), Doug Slohm (The Alpine Camp), and Dillon Yoder (All Access, Shiver, Faultline). Hello Stranger released their debut record, Long Division, with producer Jon Lundin in January 2018. The album has now received over 1 million combined streams. In September 2021, they followed up their debut with Social Dissonance. 2022 brings the EP True Belief as the band continues to write/record their next full-length album.