Hoops share tender new track "Glad You Stayed"

"Glad You Stayed" arrives after last month's lead single "Fall Back", which will also feature on Halo alongside last year's "They Say" track.

The band's Keagan Beresford reveals that the song's lyrics are addressed to a friend that survived a suicide attempt. Beresford says, "It was the first time I had experienced something like that. It brought a whirlwind of conflicting emotions, but more than anything I was just happy they survived."

Halo will be Hoops' second album, following on from their 2017 debut Routines. Hoops' Kevin Krauter says of their break, "I think we had lost a lot of steam. Hoops wasn’t moving forward organically. It was being dragged along."

The band recorded Halo at Bloomington's Russian Studio with producer Ben Lumsdaine between September 2019 and March 2020.

Drew Auscherman says of their new album, "This record is a more honest representation of our influences and interests as musicians. We’ve grown a lot in four years, as people and as listeners. We’re starting to sound more like ourselves."