untitled (halo) Releases Self-Titled Debut Album

By Cole Ashby, November 10, 2026

The debut is out

untitled (halo) released their self-titled debut album on November 6, 2026. Apple Music lists it at 11 tracks. The Los Angeles band is Ariana Mamnoon, Jack Dione, Jay Are and Nicholas Noneman, longtime friends who came up through the city's DIY circuit before locking in as a group.

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The record folds in earlier singles "sex," "easy rider" and "aimee lou wood freestyle," and opens with that freestyle before moving into the new cut "how to make your love (stay)." The band directed the video for that track themselves. Mamnoon and Dione are credited as directors. In the release framing, the clip follows two young friends working through loss and love.

California Melancholia, their phrase

untitled (halo) use the phrase California Melancholia for the mood they chase: a quiet emotional undercurrent under a place that sells endless growth while people stay stuck. The album announcement puts that idea next to the tracklist. The songs, on their telling, were written over a year in a Glassell Park studio while the four of them dealt with heartbreak, rough relationships and isolation. They call themselves "emotional people in need of sonic catharsis." That line is theirs, not mine.

Before the album, they had already been building rooms for themselves. The same announcement credits a 40-person group art show, This Heaven Knows Bars with Obey, and an ongoing party series in local venues. That is not a label inventing a scene after the fact. It is the band describing how they spent years before anyone called this a debut.

Teen Vogue sat with Mamnoon, Dione and Are in August 2024 and caught the same DIY stubbornness early. Mamnoon, then 27, said they never set out to be a rock band. Dione, then 23, and Are, then 23, were already in the room. The piece places their first meetings between 2021 and 2022 around Los Angeles. Noneman's public record puts him in the same adult cohort: a USC Thornton Music Industry degree listed for 2017 to 2020 and engineering credits that predate this album.

The tracklist and the shows

Here is the running order from Apple Music and the band's own site:

1. aimee lou wood freestyle
2. how to make your love (stay)
3. industry talk
4. default factory settings
5. sex
6. thief
7. you're going to jail now
8. kissimmee
9. diss
10. easy rider
11. On10

To mark the release, untitled (halo) booked two headline dates in November 2026: New York at Baby's All Right on November 14, and Los Angeles at The Echo on November 24. In the release prose, the New York date is listed as sold out; the date line marks the Los Angeles show as sold out.

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My read

What I trust here is the sequence. A band that spent years mixing, throwing parties and putting up group shows does not suddenly invent a debut voice on street date. The self-titled move also reads clean: no fancy concept title, just the name they have been working under since "el prado freestyle." Eleven tracks is a short statement, not a dump. The video credit going to two members of the band matches the DIY thread better than a hired outsider would.

I am not going to invent how it sounds. Other writers have already reached for shoegaze, trip-hop and hazy indie when they describe earlier EPs. For this piece, the useful facts are the date, the tracklist, the Glassell Park year, the two November shows and the band's own words about why they made it. Start with "how to make your love (stay)," then go back to "sex" and "easy rider" if you want the path that led here.

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Verdict: A self-titled debut that treats Los Angeles restlessness as material, not branding, and that keeps the band's own hands on the video and the rooms they play.