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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

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For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

01. Scuba - Aphids
02. Quantizers - Let's Roll (Dubphone remix)
03. Re.you - Stare
04. Scuba - Choke
05. Levon Vincent - Air Raid
06. Jichael Mackson - Snuff
07. Rrose - Mirror
08. Bleak - Ekko
09. Auden - Flux
10. Scuba - Solitary Confinement
11. ESS - Downwards
12. Roberto - Rings Of Smoke
13. Johannes Heil - Happy 808
14. Rrose - The Surgeon General (No Child Left Behind)
15. Dario Zenker - Cafu
16. Scuba - Distance
17. Auden - Trip To Fade

Scuba - Phenix Podcast 2

Today Wild Beasts release two previously unheard tracks entitled Soft Future and Blood Knowledge. Soft Future is the band’s first ever instrumental track, and is available to download as a special end-of-year giveaway below.

Over the past couple of months Wild Beasts and Parisian animator Mattis Dovier have been working together to create an interactive GIF-novel (po.st/SFNovel) to accompany Soft Future and Blood Knowledge. The project forms part of The Jameson Works. You can watch the band creating the GIF novel and read an article about the project in Creative Review (po.st/GIFCreativeReview).

Soft Future

Wild Beasts - Soft Future

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Laleh - BOOM (DWNTWN Remix)

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Indian Wells - Alcantara

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Bloom

Shadow // Cooper Stites Remix

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Shining Armor - Original MLP song by MandoPony

Ethereal melodies and a thought-provoking lyrical flow to electronic fantasy sound design.