Hazy Waters Turn Rose-Coloured Glasses Into a Hook on Blue
The London Trio Trade Murk for Euphoria on Their Most Direct Single Yet
“And I see in pink.” That line sits near the centre of blue, the single hazy waters released on 8 July 2026, and it does two jobs at once. It is the oldest metaphor for new love. It is also a straight description of vocalist Agness, who has the pink hair to match. Around it the band build the biggest, least guarded hook they have written.
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hazy waters Are Three People and Fifteen Years of Knowing Each Other
Agness sings and runs the visual side of the project. Aleks produces. Simon brings the synthesizer work, and on blue those synths lead rather than support.
The history matters. Agness and Aleks met as teenagers in Poland, then spent years in the same city without making anything together. Both eventually landed in London, she working in fashion photography, he deep in production. By their own account they navigated the same streets for eight years before finally plugging in and hitting record, roughly three years ago. Simon arrived later, and by the band’s telling, exactly when they needed him.
Simon is the outlier of the three, and useful for it. He came from a background in Spanish classical conservatories, which is not the usual route into a shoegaze band. That training leaves a composer thinking in voice-leading and harmonic movement rather than patch presets. It is audible in how the synth parts move here.
Fifteen years of knowing someone also changes how you write together. There is no negotiation phase, and no working out whose idea gets deference. Consequently blue has no hedging in it at all.
From Murky Water To Unhinged Summer Energy
Everything the band released before this pointed somewhere darker. Their debut EP, watch out for deep waters, went into self-sabotage and identity. Their own description of that record is refreshingly plain: 90s and 2000s rock run through a weird little filter.
blue keeps the filter and swaps the subject. The band describe the aim as channelling unhinged summer energy into a joyful indie anthem, and the production follows that brief. Instead of burying the vocal under guitar fuzz, which is the shoegaze default, they let the synths glisten and push the melody out front.
The hook is the tell. “When I love you like this” does not work if the arrangement is hiding anything. Meanwhile the lyric keeps its odd edges. Being “clockworked to your liking” is a strange and specific way to describe devotion, and it stops the song tipping into greeting-card territory.
That balance is the achievement. Plenty of bands can write murk. Fewer can write joy without losing the thing that made them interesting in the first place.
Reference Points, From Alvvays To Wolf Alice
Three names help place blue without flattening it.
Alvvays are the closest match for what the band attempt here. They make guitar music with genuine shoegaze heritage that nonetheless commits fully to a pop chorus. That refusal to treat a hook as a compromise runs right through blue.
Wolf Alice offer the other half. Their catalogue moves between soft and abrasive without apology, which is precisely the range hazy waters have covered between the EP and this single.
DIIV are the guitar reference. Their records treat reverb as something to swim in rather than hide behind, and the glistening quality the band chase on blue sits in that tradition, only pushed toward synths.
The band have picked up notice along the way. Clash Magazine and Fame Magazine both ran standalone features on the earlier single high. Kool Rock Radio and Rock The Joint Magazine have covered the singles and the EP around them.
IndieMusic.News curator team: “What earns blue a slot on our list is that the synths are carrying the melody rather than the weather. Most shoegaze-adjacent bands use their keyboards as atmosphere. Here they are doing the actual songwriting work, and the track is far more direct because of it.”
Where To Hear Blue and Follow hazy waters Across Streaming Platforms
blue is out now. You can stream it on Spotify, find the full catalogue on Apple Music and SoundCloud, and buy it directly from the band on Bandcamp.
For new music, videos and the visual side of the project, follow hazy waters on Instagram and TikTok. Their YouTube channel carries the videos, and their Linktree gathers every option in one place.
