Home Body is Eric Hnatow and Haley Morgan.
Fever-pop duo Home Body ignores convention with their vivid blend of electronic, new wave, and experimental pop music, performed from the gut with wild abandon and art-school-cool theatricality. Balancing textured layers of juicy synthesizers, gritty beats, and tectonic bass with spirited, stormy vocals, synthesist Eric Hnatow and vocalist Haley Morgan create a visceral sonic landscape that feels equal parts cosmic, fleshy and electric. Emerging from the vibrant Western Mass music scene, Home Body plays with form and improvisation while retaining a dreamy pop sensibility and demanding presence. Live, the duo punctuates their sound with dance and DIY manual light manipulation, reaching beyond their performance to create a high-vibration spectacle that is buzzing with soul, shadow, and depth.
Sweethearts for over eighteen years, Hnatow and Morgan have been been making music as Home Body since 2011. The duo’s chemistry and unique sound have garnered an enthusiastic fan base throughout New England and beyond. Drawing comparisons to The Knife, Bjork, Sylvan Esso, and early Eurythmics, Home Body has performed over 500 shows across the North America since their inception, supporting acts such as Dan Deacon, Boy Harsher, Marco Benevento, GirlTalk, Guerilla Toss, and Downtown Boys. In addition to releasing their debut full length In Real Life on Feeding Tube Records, and a follow up EP Guts, the duo has scored fashion shows and dance performances and has made music for films, podcasts and commercials. Home Body’s newest full length album, ‘Spiritus’, was released April 26, 2019 on Feeding Tube Records and Peace and Rhythm and distributed through Forced Exposure. A limited edition remix cassette, ‘Tangled Up’ was released in winter 2022 on Flower Sounds.
The duo is currently working on a new album, which they wrote during quarantine after their 9 week national tour was derailed midway due to Covid-19.
PRESS
– “Buoyant vocals and a varied palette of synths work in perfect tandem to create gorgeous art-pop that’s able to address big realities.” – Bandcamp, New & Notable
– “Superbly talented…Haley Morgan and Eric Hnatow rewrite the basic DNA of electro-pop for their own nefarious purposes… creating purely original vistas of possibility.” – Byron Coley, The Wire
– “Home Body [makes] music that digs deep and shoots for the stars…creating songs that are always on the rise, grounded by cardiac beats but unafraid to fly into the sun.” – Mark Masters
– “Subtle and piercing…they bring a raw energy to the stage leaving the audience begging for more.” – Free George
– “Part musical show, part performance art, a Home Body gig is one you’ll never forget. Armed with an arsenal of keyboards, pedals and other musical gadgetry, Eric Hnatow creates a cosmic dance atmosphere that frames vocalist Haley Morgan’s powerful voice and words perfectly. Both members of this post-techno duo move and dance like no one is watching, which, of course, makes everyone watch with intrigue.” – MassLive
For booking and other inquiries: hellohomebody@gmail.com