To enter the new year in a suitably lethargic mood, Helado Negro has dropped new single 'Imagining What To Do', alongside an abstract, lo-fi video. It's the New Yorker's first release since his debut album This Is How You Smile which was released back in March last year. The new single opens with gentle plucks on an acoustic guitar, beside Helado's intimate layered vocals, with warming words of hibernation: "We'll stay under the covers until there's no snow". Stretched, cinematic string parts and fragile piano keys add a woeful colouring to the song. Helado uses a fasetto vocal style for the last verse which is both passionate and heart-warming, as he sings a prayer for the return of the sun: "We sink slowly, we wait softly, looking for the sun". The video to accompany the tune has a muddy circle obscuring the frame which displays bleak scenery of a city. There's a still shot of snow falling outside a shop window and a flickering fluorescent tube light, cut with blurred imagery of rooftops and Chinese lanterns and there's a feeling of wintery solitude, juxtaposing the cosy and wholesome sentiment of the song. -Ellie Rose-Davies