Hayden Calnin Announces New EP “Middle Night” Out November 21; Shares New Single “Won’t Shy”

Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Hayden Calnin has announced his forthcoming EP, Middle Night, due out November 21 via Nettwerk. Accompanying the announcement is the release of revealing new single “Won’t Shy”.

Crafted mostly in the late hours of his home studio – when Hayden says, “strange happenings and deeper thoughts often happen” – Middle Night is Hayden’s most personal and thematically expansive work to date. It’s a body of songs shaped by quiet questions, deep connections, and a lifelong pull toward the unknown. 

Middle Night is a reflection on movement: within ourselves, within the world, and within the vastness beyond. It explores how we expand, what we choose to believe, and the ways we either shrink from or step into who we really are. It’s also a record about surrender – to uncertainty, to wonder, and to love. 

Hayden shares, “These songs explore what it means to accept who you are, to question the way things are, and to recognise the deeper connection between everything. There’s an honesty in stepping forward without fear, in embracing change, in understanding that every action sends ripples through something greater than ourselves. This collection of songs takes you on a tour of growth as an individual, lessons learned along the way, and being okay in your own body and mind. We are all in this together.  

“Musically, the EP balances intimacy and power; some moments are stripped back to their rawest form, while others swell with bold, urgent energy. At its core, ‘Middle Night’ is about learning, evolving, and never losing sight of what really matters.” 

Across the EP, Hayden blends a patchwork of lush indie-folk textures with ambient electronics and alternative soundscapes, threading his rich vocals through spacious arrangements that range from sparse and cinematic to bold and immediate. 

PRE-SAVE: HAYDEN CALNIN’S MIDDLE NIGHT 
https://haydencalnin.ffm.to/middlenight

Following recent singles “Some Things Distinct & Some Things Whole” and “Alright Now”, today’s new single “Won’t Shy” sees Hayden coming to a crucial realisation with fresh resolve, as he sings “the curious won’t shy, love is what survives and here it shines.”

“It’s about embracing your own perspective, even when it feels worlds apart from others around you,” he shares. “It’s a reminder to not be too hard on yourself – because in the end, and risking cliche, love always rises above everything else. Love wins every time.  

“My life has been full of strange happenings, some would label as paranormal in nature, I’m not sure what it all is, but it’s about finding some comfort in the fact that there are others that experience the stranger side of life too.” 

WATCH & SHARE: HAYDEN CALNIN – “WON’T SHY” 
https://haydencalnin.ffm.to/wontshy 

Hayden Calnin’s new EP Middle Night sees him open this next chapter – more grounded, more honest, and more willing than ever to share a side of himself he’s kept just out of view.

MIDDLE NIGHT EP TRACKLIST

Some Things Distinct & Some Things Whole 
Alright Now 
You In Universe 
Won’t Shy 
All You Show 
Not Gonna Hide It Anymore 
Take 

ABOUT HAYDEN CALNIN: 

Across the last decade, Hayden Calnin has continually chased, captured, and harnessed this beauty in his artistry.  Hayden honed his inimitable sound across Cut Love, Pt. 1-2 [2016], A Life You Would Choose EP [2019], What It Means To Be Human [2021], A Turning of the Tide: Side A & B [2023], and, most recently, his All Kinds of Light EP [2024]. He amassed tens of millions of streams and incited the applause of American Songwriter, Atwood Magazine, Beat Magazine, The Guardian, and many more. Meanwhile, he has shared stages with the likes of Leif Vollebekk, Matt Corby, Tom Odell, and The Antlers. Simultaneously landing a series of high-profile film and television syncs, including Suits, The Good Doctor, The Vampire Diaries, So You Think You Can Dance US and the UK trailer for the Academy® Award-nominated Room. As a producer, his discography has spanned collaborations with the likes of Didirri, Harrison Storm, Riley Pearce, Woodlock, and NYCK, in addition to co-writing the global smash “Falling Up” with Dean Lewis.