Jessie Bobenmoyer and Niki Ryland are playing a dangerous game—they take mathcore, djent, dream pop, and some kind of cosmic hardcore, throw it all in a blender, and crank it up to maximum. Hail Your Highness has spent the last couple of years assembling their EP Wonderdust like a Lego set without instructions—intuitively, recklessly, with faith that the pieces will somehow fall into place on their own.

“Reset The Stars“ is the third single and, by all appearances, the final chord before the full EP drops on November 14th. The band says they recorded this track three years ago under a different name. You can hear it, actually. There’s a strange time loop in the song—as if they took an old idea, dismantled it piece by piece, and reassembled it with added experience and fury.

The track opens with mathcore verses that twist and break like a malfunctioning compass. Riffs grind, drums splinter into odd meters, and you’re already bracing yourself for five minutes of technical carnage. But then the chorus bursts in—and now it’s dance-pop rock energy, synth layers, almost euphoric. The finale collapses into a heavy ambient monolith, and there you are, trying to figure out what the hell just happened. It’s like watching three different movies simultaneously—disorienting at first, then utterly absorbing.

Bobenmoyer and Ryland sing like two characters from the same story who speak different languages but somehow understand each other. Tenderness versus aggression. Melody versus force. It works perfectly, and “perfectly” is a word I rarely use.

I have to admit: “Reset The Stars” is the most commercially viable track the band has released. There are hooks here, there’s a structure you could actually call a song, and Hail Your Highness themselves sound, for the first time, like they could be played on the radio (well, on the right radio). The problem is that the song tries to cram too many ideas into four and a half minutes. Every thirty seconds the melody sketches out a new landscape, and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with these transitions. Chaos works when it’s controlled, but here a couple of moments teeter on the edge of “too much.”

And yet this is the best kind of chaos—ambitious, sincere, the kind that happens when a band has something to say and refuses to choose just one way to say it. I’ve listened to this track about twenty times in a row, trying to parse where one idea ends and another begins, and each time I found something new. That’s rare.

“Reset The Stars” follows “Treegaze” and “Golden Hour Voice Memos,” and if these three singles are a map of where Wonderdust is headed, the EP is going to be wild. Hail Your Highness is a chameleon band that sheds its skin every five minutes, and predicting what the final release will be like is impossible. The only thing I know for sure: it definitely won’t be boring.

There are bands that find their sound and hone it for years. And then there are bands like Hail Your Highness, who reinvent themselves every time, risking failure but finding something valuable. This is music for those who are tired of safety. And it’s fucking awesome.

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