Tycho - "Hours"

Tycho shares a track from his upcoming album, 'Dive.'

Release details: http://ghostly.com/releases/dive
Artist Bio: http://ghostly.com/artists/tycho

While his formative years were spent listening to everything from Yes to Photek, Scott Hansen didn't get his hands on an actual guitar or drum machine until he left his native Sacramento for San Francisco in 1995. "Encountering this whole new world at 20 years old was a profound experience," says Hansen, better known by his musical pseudonym Tycho and as the graphic artist ISO50. "At the time, I was just learning the processes of design and music; both felt very similar, and have flowed back and forth for me ever since."

As seamless as his two creative outlets have been, nearly a decade passed before the release of Hansen's first proper Tycho LP, Sunrise Projector (later expanded and reissued under the title Past Is Prologue). And while three striking singles have emerged since then, the sum of all those sepia-toned parts is nowhere near the double-exposed soundscapes of Dive. The product of a prolonged break from IS050's design work and blog, it pays tribute to Tycho's prismatic past (the dense, guitar-guided turning points of "Daydream" and "Adrift") but spends most of its time pointing to the project's not-so-distant future.

That can mean any number of things, really, from the halcyon hooks and hopeful horizons of "A Walk" to the expansive, wildly expressive tone poetry of the title track, an eight-minute epic that unfolds like a compressed concept album. Or at the very least, a restless vision of prog-rock—one that's been coated in neon colors and filtered through a thick piece of blotter paper. And then there's "Elegy," a spare curtain closer that pairs a vulnerable crescendo with a fitting bridge to future works.

And with that, Dive establishes its position as the most diverse musical statement of Hansen's multi-medium career; the point where his skills as a performer finally catch up with his vaporized vision of a world that doesn't belong to any particular time or place.

"Nostalgia is a common thread in my work," says Hansen, "but this album wasn't driven by that idea. I see these songs as artifacts from a future which might have more in common with our past than our present."

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[Guyyouwishyouwas]

I'm going to soothingly fuck your face.

[Tom Glinski]

This song is chiller than Ice Cube's dental plan.

[Jim Yost]

The consensus of the first century Christian fathers (which the novices have dubbed as 'Christian Mystics') was that the human imagination is the component of the human soul that is the connection between the human soul and the human spirit. From what I gather from studying about it is that they thought it was very important to keep the imagination alive and kicking because it has so many life-giving spiritual benefits. TV and movies pretty much supplant the function of the human imagination.

[Jim Yost]

I noticed that there were 55 people who went to the trouble of letting it be known that they don't like this tune. People who are addicted to TV and movies don't like to have to think their own thoughts. My guess is that those 55 people are big TV and movie watchers. Music like this is for people who like to think for themselves; music like this stirs the imagination, that's for sure.

[Nikk Driver]

this is the most beautiful music,,,,,, thank you

[mateenj42]

check out my tunes. :)

[Tanner Ailstock]

feels like it goes on for hours

[Tanner Ailstock]

this songs feels like it just goes on for hours and hours

[redsbr]

To me this song is one of the few id consider to be brilliant. "Hours" the term captures the passage of time and this song is the theme of melancholy and how you go from despair to acceptance and then to hope.

[MagicCryo]

i don't know enough adjectives ! D:

shit

[Vik M]

I like this better, but Dive is great too!

[BartenderPMC]

Doesn't beat Dive.