‘属 Belonging’, Ian Chang’s first full-length album, is like a cyborg – part purring mechanism, part animate bio-mass rising from primordial ooze. In nine concise, largely instrumental pop songs, Chang conjures a personal cosmos: the listener feels as if we might reach out and touch Belonging’s jagged and tender aural sculptures. At every level, his music sings with earnest and deceptive simplicity. The album’s melodies are intimate, its rhythms rewarding, and yet, just beneath t...
‘属 Belonging’, Ian Chang’s first full-length album, is like a cyborg – part purring mechanism, part animate bio-mass rising from primordial ooze. In nine concise, largely instrumental pop songs, Chang conjures a personal cosmos: the listener feels as if we might reach out and touch Belonging’s jagged and tender aural sculptures. At every level, his music sings with earnest and deceptive simplicity. The album’s melodies are intimate, its rhythms rewarding, and yet, just beneath the surface glimmers innovation, as if the neurons firing in each melodic idea have become audible. From the tradition of Bjork, Burial, and Flying Lotus, Chang breathes a new kind of human vulnerability into electronica.
Out on City Slang.
FEATURED VOCALISTS
Kiah Victoria – “Comfort Me”
Kazu Makino – “Audacious”
Hanna Benn – “雀舌 (Bird’s Tongue)”
ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS
Jackson Hill – Electric bass on “Comfort Me”
Kendrick Lo – Electric guitar on “Comfort Me”
Rafiq Bhatia – Electric guitar on “Zoetrope”
吴非 Wu Fei – 古筝 on “醉罗汉 (Drunken Fist)”
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