Haido’s Tales Beyond: A Cinematic Journey Through Post-Apocalyptic Emotion

With Tales Beyond, Ukrainian electronic artist Haido (Nazar Haiduchyk) delivers his most narratively cohesive and sonically refined work to date—an album that feels less like a collection of tracks and more like a unified cinematic universe. Through electronica, IDM-leaning rhythms, dub-tinged atmospheres, and delicately constructed downtempo frameworks, Haido creates a space where emotional fragility coexists with post-apocalyptic stillness. What stands out immediately is the album’s conceptual depth: each track functions as a self-contained story, yet each is tethered to a shared melancholic cosmos shaped by the inner life of a “gentle robot” protagonist, whose feelings unfold through sound.

The opening piece, “My Generator,” encapsulates the album’s emotional and aesthetic DNA. The track treats love not as sentimentality but as an existential power source—rendered through warm pads, understated percussive details, and carefully modulated synth breaths that pulse like a mechanical heart. Haido’s ability to merge narrative intention with precise sound design shows a maturity that elevates the album beyond genre tropes.

“Cryo Porcupine” deepens the world-building with a tale of unexpected friendship and hidden softness within spiky forms. Crystalline synthesizer cascades and a weighty, velvety low-end contrast sharply yet organically, illustrating the tension between danger and vulnerability. Haido excels here at balancing complexity with accessibility, embedding IDM-esque microtextures within an otherwise fluid downtempo arc.

On “Blue Star,” he shifts toward a grainier, more tactile palette. Rhythmic static, fluttering percussive granules, and luminous melodic lines form a dialogue between the synthetic and the organic, mirroring the theme of empathy toward delicate forms of life. The track feels like a quiet triumph—a point where the album’s emotional narrative becomes unambiguously tender.

The midsection of the album is its most exploratory. “Nebulance” stretches the listener across a wide spatial field, conjuring drifting star matter and glowing cosmic clouds. The warm analog synths, layered like drifting nebulae, showcase Haido’s sophisticated handling of atmosphere and motion. Meanwhile, “Fragile 92” introduces controlled chaos: a glitch-infused beat that edges toward drum’n’bass, while its lead synth disintegrates and recombines as if undergoing chemical transformation. It’s one of the album’s most daring and dynamic constructions.

The introspection intensifies with “Embers,” a piece built around restraint. Sparse textures simulate the hiss of rain and the last breaths of a dying fire, allowing silence to become an active element. This track reflects Haido’s sensitivity to emotional pacing—he knows when to pare down and when to push outward.

The closing track, “Distant Warmth,” seals the album with understated optimism. Its steady rhythm and melancholic overtones suggest resilience rather than resolution, as if the robot’s journey hasn’t ended but simply reached a resting point. The final impression is one of honesty: hope acknowledges the presence of darkness rather than erasing it.

In Tales Beyond, Haido achieves a rare balance between conceptual storytelling and technical sophistication. The album is meticulously produced yet emotionally unguarded, rich in narrative symbolism yet never weighed down by it. With this release, Haido solidifies himself as one of the most compelling new voices in Eastern European electronica—an artist who understands that sound can carry not only atmosphere but character, memory, and myth.

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