{"id":18195,"date":"2026-01-30T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18195"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:37:58","slug":"hunter-as-a-horse-lighthouse-eclectic-electronic-artist-signs-to-metropolis-records-and-releases-new-single-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=18195","title":{"rendered":"HUNTER AS A HORSE – ‘Lighthouse’ eclectic electronic artist signs to Metropolis Records and releases new single today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hunter As a Horse<\/strong> (HAAH) is the South African musician and vocalist Mia van Wyk. Based in the Western Cape, she has spent the last few years self-releasing a diverse series of singles and EPs that combine electronically-focused songs with intense, melancholic lyrics that are given a darkly cinematic production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having recently signed to Metropolis Records, the first HAAH single for the label is \u2019Lighthouse\u2019, an extremely personal song that weaves together mythology and psychology. Inspired by Carl Jung and \u2018shadow work\u2019, it is about how only the broken can truly understand each other. \u201cBut, one who was broken and is now healed has greater power to lead the broken through the dark night of the soul because they know the territory,\u201d<\/em> explains van Wyk. \u201cIt\u2019s like if someone who died came back to guide the lost back home. I\u2019m ignoring every warning about how you can\u2019t save someone and declaring that I can. It\u2019s about fearlessly challenging somebody else\u2019s demons.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seamlessly genre-hopping between alternative, indie, electronic and dream-pop, with diversions into alternative dance and even nu-goth, the songs of HAAH have been described as mysterious, apocalyptic soundtracks for the strange happenings of our time, with the UK newspaper The Guardian commenting: \u201cBrings to mind the mesmerising atmospherics of Lamb and Zero 7. Dark and very lovely indeed.\u201d<\/em>

 The song lyrics of van Wyk are a mystical ride through her strange and synchronicitous life. Deeply authentic, they are inspired by death, addiction, astral visions, CPTSD, melancholia, nostalgia and magical thinking.

Songs by HAAH can be heard in US TV shows such as American Horror Story, Riverdale and Elite, the film \u2018Wander Darkly\u2019 and an array of international adverts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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