Tears of Bliss
Boise, ID
In May of 2025, Logan Hyde started to write an album. He had only one rule to follow. He wanted it to be a guitar album. “It had been ages since I really worked on a complete work of music, and I really wanted to fall back in love with the guitar,” Hyde says. “I felt like I didn’t know what I was doing anymore, like I was learning how to write for the first time. I just put faith in that process and allowed any idea that popped into my head to flow out. It took many different shapes before it started making sense, and then the dust finally settled.”
After 8 months of writing and recording, and trimming nearly 100 songs down to about 20, Hyde finally settled on the 12 tracks that now take the name Honeymoon Phase, the debut album under his new moniker, Tears of Bliss.
“Tears of Bliss describes that ecstasy you feel when you’re starting a fresh and exciting dance with a new person,” Hyde says. “Those tears of bliss often shed in the honeymoon phase of that journey with a new person, damn it feels good.”
A story of love and loss, of time passing and people dying — Honeymoon Phase is a dark, moody, and expansive journey through the peaks and valleys that all relationships travel, and the bitter end that can be inevitable. From the highs, heard on the sparkly shoegaze anthem “Fly” where Hyde declares from the mountain top, “I want to fly with you, I want to get high with you,” to the lows — the hesitation and skepticism heard on “Siren.” Brooding and thumping, distorted and dissonant bass chords pave a road for the guitars to come barreling down. “I came, I saw, but I never conquered,” Hyde mutters. “I’ve been looking for a sign or a symbol, but you were not the one.” Admitting a defeat that he was not prepared for. A realization that things somehow weren’t quite how they seemed. “After these songs started taking shape, I knew this was going to be a dark, intricate guitar album,” Hyde says. “I was accomplishing what I had set out to do. Make a guitar record, something unique and concise. Something I was truly proud of.”
The album bends and sways towards different sides of the spectrum. On the soft and sweet opus of love not reciprocated, “Moonlight,” Hyde croons sweetly about love not received and the desire and despair felt while searching for it. “I’m leaning into moonlight, waiting for your love,” we hear Hyde yearn from the deepest valley. The desperation of wanting so badly what you realize you’ll never get. The cruising and emotional rock statement “Pale White Horse” details the return home from a weekend road trip and seeing a white horse grazing in a field on the side of the highway, a symbol of death. Hyde laments, “I’ve heard there is a fear that grips us all, hiding in the night. Cover your eyes and count them all, it finds us in plain sight.” A statement of the inevitability of the conclusion. The monster lurking in the shadows. The looming end of a relationship, a friendship, or the end of a life too short.
Honeymoon Phase is dark but romantic. A love letter to breakups. A dissection of relationships and of time running out. On the standout track “I’m Waiting,” we hear Hyde accepting the passing of time and the aging that comes with it. “Watching my sparkle die,” Hyde barks over an old and off-sounding acoustic guitar, before the track explodes into a cacophony of fuzzed-out electric guitars, showing the playful side of despair and depression. For anyone who has felt uncertain about a new partner entering their orbit, only to leave again so soon. Hyde points this out on “Fly,” almost teasing, “Sticky chewy substance in my mouth, where did you come from?” For love sometimes ends up in our mouth with no memory of us taking that first bite, and by the time you start chewing, that sticky glob is already stuck in your teeth.
“I have a friend who always refers to artistic creation as a portal,” Hyde shares. “He says once you find the portal, it’s that much easier to access it again. Tears of Bliss is the key to my portal, and Honeymoon Phase was my first trip inside.”
This brilliant debut album from Tears of Bliss showcases the captivating songwriting prowess Hyde possesses, and it reminds us that trying hurts like hell sometimes, but that life can always get better if we’re vigilant. And there can be so much beauty in that struggle, if we only remain open to seeing it.
After 8 months of writing and recording, and trimming nearly 100 songs down to about 20, Hyde finally settled on the 12 tracks that now take the name Honeymoon Phase, the debut album under his new moniker, Tears of Bliss.
“Tears of Bliss describes that ecstasy you feel when you’re starting a fresh and exciting dance with a new person,” Hyde says. “Those tears of bliss often shed in the honeymoon phase of that journey with a new person, damn it feels good.”
A story of love and loss, of time passing and people dying — Honeymoon Phase is a dark, moody, and expansive journey through the peaks and valleys that all relationships travel, and the bitter end that can be inevitable. From the highs, heard on the sparkly shoegaze anthem “Fly” where Hyde declares from the mountain top, “I want to fly with you, I want to get high with you,” to the lows — the hesitation and skepticism heard on “Siren.” Brooding and thumping, distorted and dissonant bass chords pave a road for the guitars to come barreling down. “I came, I saw, but I never conquered,” Hyde mutters. “I’ve been looking for a sign or a symbol, but you were not the one.” Admitting a defeat that he was not prepared for. A realization that things somehow weren’t quite how they seemed. “After these songs started taking shape, I knew this was going to be a dark, intricate guitar album,” Hyde says. “I was accomplishing what I had set out to do. Make a guitar record, something unique and concise. Something I was truly proud of.”
The album bends and sways towards different sides of the spectrum. On the soft and sweet opus of love not reciprocated, “Moonlight,” Hyde croons sweetly about love not received and the desire and despair felt while searching for it. “I’m leaning into moonlight, waiting for your love,” we hear Hyde yearn from the deepest valley. The desperation of wanting so badly what you realize you’ll never get. The cruising and emotional rock statement “Pale White Horse” details the return home from a weekend road trip and seeing a white horse grazing in a field on the side of the highway, a symbol of death. Hyde laments, “I’ve heard there is a fear that grips us all, hiding in the night. Cover your eyes and count them all, it finds us in plain sight.” A statement of the inevitability of the conclusion. The monster lurking in the shadows. The looming end of a relationship, a friendship, or the end of a life too short.
Honeymoon Phase is dark but romantic. A love letter to breakups. A dissection of relationships and of time running out. On the standout track “I’m Waiting,” we hear Hyde accepting the passing of time and the aging that comes with it. “Watching my sparkle die,” Hyde barks over an old and off-sounding acoustic guitar, before the track explodes into a cacophony of fuzzed-out electric guitars, showing the playful side of despair and depression. For anyone who has felt uncertain about a new partner entering their orbit, only to leave again so soon. Hyde points this out on “Fly,” almost teasing, “Sticky chewy substance in my mouth, where did you come from?” For love sometimes ends up in our mouth with no memory of us taking that first bite, and by the time you start chewing, that sticky glob is already stuck in your teeth.
“I have a friend who always refers to artistic creation as a portal,” Hyde shares. “He says once you find the portal, it’s that much easier to access it again. Tears of Bliss is the key to my portal, and Honeymoon Phase was my first trip inside.”
This brilliant debut album from Tears of Bliss showcases the captivating songwriting prowess Hyde possesses, and it reminds us that trying hurts like hell sometimes, but that life can always get better if we’re vigilant. And there can be so much beauty in that struggle, if we only remain open to seeing it.
