Hjalmar Littauer is an Oslo-based songwriter and producer, whose career started in earnest with the Danish DIY project ISRA. 2018’s Sun Solace EP was his first bit of recorded output with the band. Littauer stepped out into spotlight with his solo, indie psych project Y is Nature.

Inspired by the spy thriller film genre and today’s geopolitical hybrid warfare, Littauer through Y is Nature explores themes of evasion, secrecy and suspicion paired with ambiguous soundscapes that reflects anxiety and courage.

Littauer’s Y is Nature full-length debut, Evasion is slated for release next month. The album’s latest single, the Hjalmar Littauer, Simon Littauer and Martin Solli co-produced “The Fool” features Tuva Svendsen Hesmyr‘s expressive and gorgeous vocal ethereally floating over a lush and dreamy production featuring dense layers of glistening synths, skittering and pulsing beats. The result is a song that’s tense yet languorous, elegant and downright dreamy.

Littauer and Svendsen Hesmyr explain that “the track navigates the unsettling interplay between the fear of losing someone you love and the desperate need for control.”

Directed and filmed by Greg Pope and based on a screenplay written by Littauer and Svendsen Hesmyr, the video stars Svendesn Hesmyr in an unsettling fever dream that follows the Norwegian artist wandering the woods and in a bare, all-white room, appearing as though she were being interrogated.