/ WLW8 / pronounced [will wait]
/ http://linktr.ee/wlw8
/ prague

Hi! We are WLW8. We're the zeitgeist-monitors in Prague. We grew up dancing away in sweaty underground clubs: now, we transform that nostalgia into partly tongue-in-cheek, partly serious, mostly housey music. And we sing, too.

http://refsmusic.com
refsmusicrefs@gmail.com

NEW SINGLE! CAN'T HANG ON
https://bodylanguage.bandcamp.com/album/cant-hang-on

SHOWS!

11/18 Washington DC @ DC9 Nightclub - http://goo.gl/Q3unr8
11/19 New York @ Rough Trade NYC - http://goo.gl/IpnSK1
11/20 Boston @ Great Scott- http://goo.gl/EX0QxP
12/1 San Fran @ Swedish American Hall - http://goo.gl/t4MY27
12/3 San Diego @ Soda Bar - http://goo.gl/3mLPej
12/4 - Los Angeles @ The Echo - http://goo.gl/vu6jue

属 Belonging, Ian Chang’s first full-length album, is like a cyborg - part purring mechanism, part animate bio-mass rising from primordial ooze. 

In nine concise, largely instrumental pop songs, Chang conjures a personal cosmos: the listener feels as if we might reach out and touch 属 Belonging's jagged and tender aural sculptures. At every level, his music sings with earnest and deceptive simplicity. The album's melodies are intimate, its rhythms rewarding, and yet, just beneath the surface glimmers innovation, as if the neurons firing in each melodic idea have become audible.

When Chang describes his creative process, the phrase "third culture” keeps coming up. Born in the colony of Hong Kong in 1988, Chang has lived a nomadic life. Stationed out of New York for 10 years, he built an impressive roster of progressive pop collaborators such as Moses Sumney, Joan As Policewoman, and Matthew Dear, among others, all while performing internationally and recording as a member of Son Lux and Landlady. Now relocated to Dallas, Texas, Chang's discovered an inquisitive confidence that can only come from newfound isolation. Between tours, he dedicated himself to developing his international musical language, facilitated by a home studio and a burgeoning relationship.

属 Belonging is set for digital release April 24th, 2020 and physical release May 29th, 2020 via City Slang, with the new singles "Audacious" featuring Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead and "舞狮 Lion Dance" out now.

- Written by Ross Edwards

RM47 “CYBER” OUT NOW  
https://codeswitch.lnk.to/CYBER

ARTIST, DJ, CURATOR & 1/2 of @RM47

From the future.

inquiries: opal@opaldillard.com

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