emi.moe/hiraeth

✦ 2nd album ✦ 4 years in the works ✦ 8 songs ✦

Hiraeth started out as a simple idea - a fully complextro EP, something i dreamed of doing for the longest time. 4 years later that somewhat changed.

i still wanted Hiraeth to push the boundaries of complextro, but i also wanted it to be a body of work that i am for once proud of. one I could look back at years later without regrets or dissatisfaction, one i could point people to when they ask me about my music and not have any doubts in the back of my head. and while Hiraeth is not perfect, i am confident it achieves these goals.

Hiraeth captures the last 4 years of my music journey. it is a monumental project for me, and with the amount of effort i put into it, i didn't want it to be just another EP in my discography. this is why the tracklist was revisited and extended to be an album.

i want to thank...
aests, arcade blaster, shane mccullough, glort, paracosm, fairlightflat, dazed, pprmint, soulusions, carson cole, arsnl, ollaxe, circuit hour, ranzor, MYRID, wherefore, mergatroid, sommy, lily, zac, helol, anders, lockedoor, jecoeur, vvaves, xektro, jaxfan, jenceno, charade61, inverted silence, kaifu, mieoru, tori, suyasuya, lexeria, svrge
...and everyone else who supported me during february-march of 2022. it is only thanks to you that i was able to get a new laptop, continue what i love doing most, and finally bring you this album.

special thanks to paracosm, airi, mewt, djeb, zeroth, sunnexo, luci, and sowo. without you, Hiraeth wouldn't be the same.

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Hiraeth

6/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

this song evolved from a little project i started back in november 2019, it was an experiment where i tried to vocal chop an acapella in such a way that it would sound like it's actually saying something, eventually i came back to it and somewhere during december 2020 the main drop idea took shape

special thanks to @itscoffeerun for helping me with the artwork colours :)
 
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3 oct 2019, 51h 41m

LUV U

4/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

special thanks to @itscoffeerun for once again helping me with colour decisions on the artwork! thanks @paracosm-audio for making this beautiful banner! and s/o @notzeroth for liking this song
 
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21 jan 2021, 56h 7m

uhh cock

7/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

technically this might be the second finished version (or maybe even the third), the first one was nearing completion around the time luv u released but at some point i realised that i'm not happy with it in the slightest and that it does not have any redeemable qualities, it took me making one new part of the song (one you can hear at 2:59) to start replacing and rearranging other ones one by one until pretty much none that were present initially remained.

this is a prime example of sunk-cost fallacy, a good chunk of the driving force that made me want to finish this one came from the fact that i didn't want all the effort i've already put into it go to waste. in the end i'm not even sure if i'm entirely satisfied with the results, i feel like it sounds like a collection of ideas rather than a cohesive song. however i'm happy with how they sound individually, and i think this showcases some sides of my music that weren't present in my previous releases, so maybe it's not so bad, i hope you can enjoy it!
 
s/o @notzeroth for helping me with some final decisions on this one

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27 sep 2020, 117h 16m

Stay Alive

1/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

74h 40m, 15 feb 2022

Kill 'em with Moe

2/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

now with less rendering errors! now with less high end! now with less hats! now with less cheesy transitions! 

68h 67m, 24 mar 2023

Still You

3/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

73h 50m, (project) 23 feb 2024, (core idea) 5 jul 2024

Anorak

5/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

30h 21m, 27 feb 2020

Travel

8/8 of Hiraeth ✦ emi.moe/hiraeth

98h 55m, 10 jan 2021

A Solace You Deserved

complextro album Hiraeth out now
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