Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports - VINYL LP

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the of Awake - his second LP for Ghostly International - the solo project 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. InchAfter the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,Inch Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho's creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond it's 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. InchIt crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,Inch says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like InchMontanaInch and InchAwakeInch are a departure from Tycho's previous material - unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record - while InchSeeInch and InchDyeInch 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 synthesize

Two CD set. Over the past year, GRAMMY Best New Artist-nominated Vermont singer & songwriter Noah Kahan has exploded from his New England roots into the global mainstream and has been touted as one of this year's biggest and best new artists. The global sensation is back with an expanded version of Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever). The extended 2 CD set showcases 7 additional tracks from Kahan's platinum-certified Stick Season album as well as his double platinum-certified, and first career Top 10 hit, InchStick Season,Inch and platinum-certified Top 40 hit InchDial Drunk.Inch Album Tracks 1. Northern Attitude 2. Stick Season 3. All My Love 4. She Calls Me Back 5. Come Over 6. New Perspectiv 7. Everywhere Everything 8. Orange Juice 9. Strawberry Wine 10. Growing Sideways 11. Halloween 12. Homesic 13. Still 14. The View Between Villages 1. Your Needs, My Needs 2. Dial Drunk 3. Paul Revere 4. No Complaint 5. Call Your Mom 6. You're Gonna Go Far 7. The View Between Villages [Extended]

ORANGE/RED. 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. InchEncountering this whole new world at 20 years old was a profound experience,Inch says Hansen, better known by his musical pseudonym Tycho and as the graphic artist ISO50. InchAt 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. Inch As seamless as his two creative outlets have been, nearly a decade passed before the 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 InchDaydreamInch and InchAdriftInch) but spends most of it's time pointing to the project's not-so-distant future. That can mean any number of things, really, from the halcy- on hooks and hopeful horizons of InchA WalkInch to the expansive, wildly expressive tone poetry of the title track, an eight-min- ute 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 InchElegy,Inch a spare curtain closer that pairs a vulnerable crescendo with a fitting bridge to future works. And with that, Dive establishes it's 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