With the release of their first single “Island of Promise,” the Budapest, Hungary-based electronic music production and artist duo Belau, comprised of Peter Kedves and Buzas Krisztian quickly received attention across their native Hungary for a buoyant, summery and dance floor friendly sound meant to evoke “cheerful places, filled with sunshine, where one can relax, unwind and find peace and harmony,” as the duo explain in press notes. In fact, the single landed at number 1 on Deezer Hungary, one of the country’s biggest streaming services, and since its release has amassed over 500,000 streams, has been featured in the HBO Hungary series Aranyélet and in an international Pepsi ad campaign shown in 33 countries. 

Building upon a growing profile, the duo’s 2016 full-length debut The Odyssey won the Hungarian Grammy for Best Electronic Music Album, and they followed that up with a period of intense touring over the next two years in which they played over 120 shows in 19 countries with stops at Eurosonic, Sziget, Reeperbahn, Untold, and SXSW. 

The duo’s latest single “Breath,” find the duo collaborating with vocalist Sophie Lindinger   in a sultry and dance floor friendly track in which Lindinger’s breathy vocals are paired with a buoyant and incredibly slick production centered around glitchy beats, finger snaps and a sinuous yet incredibly anthemic hook. Sonically speaking, the song reveals a duo that manages to balance an adventurous and forward-thinking sound with an accessible approach. 

Directed by Attila Damokos, the recently released video for “Breath’ is an incredibly cinematic video that follows a beautiful but very lonely woman, through a series of flashbacks — her dying her hair blonde, sitting in an old fashioned furnished apartment smoking cigarettes by herself and traveling by train through the Hungarian country. And while beautiful, it evokes an underlying ache at its core.