"When I listen to this record, I can't help but move and dance," says Hayden Dunham, of their second album as Hyd, Hold Onto Me Infinity. "It's almost like, on a cellular level, all my cells are vibrating."

The 37-year-old American is an artist working with big ideas across a variety of forms, of which music is just one.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Anthony Carew of The International Pop Underground, Dunham talks about their sculptural practice, how that relates to Hyd, how music helps them move through 'different states of being', their obsession with watching people cry, and what it's like to cry in space.

They also talk about their early performance-art project QT, made with their partner SOPHIE and PC Music's A.G. Cook. And how dealing with SOPHIE's death has led them to interrogate thoughts around loss, embodiment and disembodiment.

Across Hold Onto Me Infinity, Hyd explores the question 'where do the dead go, and how do we explore them in new forms?' All whilst the music remains bright, the production effervescent.

"This album," Dunahm offers, "whilst holding this depth of loss that I have been experiencing, also holds this levity. And buoyancy."

Feature image: Bobbi Salvör Menuez