? Belonging

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.

Tracks

1~1~Lion Dance
1~2~Comfort Me (Feat. Kiah Victoria)
1~3~Teem
1~4~Swarm
1~5~Audacious (Feat. Kazu)
1~6~Food Court
1~7~Bird's Tongue (Feat. Hanna Benn)
1~8~Zoetrope
1~9~Drunken Fist
2~1~Lion Dance
2~2~Comfort Me (Feat. Kiah Victoria)
2~3~Teem
2~4~Swarm
2~5~Audacious (Feat. Kazu)
2~6~Food Court
2~7~Bird's Tongue (Feat. Hanna Benn)
2~8~Zoetrope
2~9~Drunken Fist

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Ian Chang
Release Date: 29 May 2020
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Label: City Slang
Distributor: Inertia Music