Hush have released Funhouse today, April 15, the third and final single ahead of their debut album Phasing, due May 22 via Simone Records.
The Montreal trio, Paige Barlow, Miles Dupire-Gagnon, and Gabriel Lambert, recorded the track mostly live, then fed elements back through a Leslie speaker. The result shifts constantly without feeling unsettled, guitars drifting slightly out of sync, synths looping in tight patterns, drums moving between pulses rather than locking into one.
Barlow stays at the centre of it. Her vocal holds steady while the arrangement bends around her, and midway through, pitched-up layers start to surface, less a hook than a quiet doubling. It builds without announcing that it’s building.
The lyrics circle around belief, and the systems people rely on to make sense of things, even when they stop delivering clear answers. Barlow calls it “a theatrically messy interpretation of romance,” and frames it as something ongoing rather than resolved. “It’s about the confidence people place in systems that promise meaning,” she said. “You shake it, wait for clarity, and sometimes the answer is just: try again later.”
Dupire-Gagnon co-produced the track with René Wilson, continuing a process that keeps the songwriting tight while letting the details blur at the edges. The melodies land cleanly, even when everything around them starts to slip.
A visualizer directed by Barlow arrives with the release, built around looped lyrics projected onto close shots of eyes, repeating and shifting without quite settling into a single image.
Watch below:
Photo – Aabid Youssef
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