2x Grammy Award-nominated Tycho has unveiled their new album, Infinite Health, produced by songwriter, musician, and producer Scott Hansen along with Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Tycho guitarist Zac Brown.
Sonically, the album sees Tycho returning to a more electronic-based production style, “focusing on breaks, drums, and rhythmic elements” Hansen says. “Then, using that as the foundation, and having all the instrumentation follow that lead, as opposed to the other way around.” Although Infinite Health retains the personnel of recent works — as usual, Zac Brown shares guitar, and Rory O’Connor’s behind the kit — Hansen considers the album to mark a fourth era for Tycho.
Infinite Health was initially heralded in June with Italo Disco neon noir track, “Phantom,” alongside a suitably iridescent, 80s-influenced video that was a collaboration with Ricardo B. Ponce aka Pixel Flux. In July, the band released “Devices” and “Green,” two contrasting pieces that show the breadth of mood and nuance on the intimate and heartfelt album.
“‘Infinite Health’ is about hope for the future and a requiem for the past.” Scott Hansen explains: “I kept thinking back to the high-water mark scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the author sitting at a typewriter looking out a window onto his past, trying to find meaning in the chaos. Infinite Health is about creating a space for reflection, a mantra for spiritual, emotional, and physical healing. Ultimately, all we really have is our health – both physical and mental – and we wish infinite health to our family and friends. So in those ways, infinite health is a salutation and an imperative.”
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