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MONOLYTH is a Belgian duo formed by Théo Roland (composer, director, arranger) and Gaëtan Heymans (singer, performer, bassist) — two filmmakers who are also musicians, and who write music and image as the same story rather than treating one as advertising for the other. That is not a claim, it is a track record. Roland's short film Unscarred (2023), with Heymans on cinematography, set design and post-production, screened at international festivals. The clips for Time to Move On and Twisted Fate were made entirely in-house. When MONOLYTH release a song, the film comes with it. Their debut EP HABESHA, out on 23 October 2026, is six tracks and one story: a love story told from the encounter, the discovery, the attachment, the disillusionment, the fracture, and acceptance. Written, composed and produced in their own studio, it moves between trip-hop, cinematic alternative rock and contemporary pop — Massive Attack and Portishead are audible, and so is a pop instinct the duo makes no apology for. The EP is preceded by the singles Those Habesha Eyes (23 September) and Blurry Vision (1 October).