OMORI,HINAKO
STILLNESS SOFTNESS... (INDIE EXCLUSIVE CLEAR VINYL) - LP

UPC: 5060845323325
Label: HOUNDSTOOTH
Format: LP
Release Date: November 3, 2023
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For Hinako Omori, synthesizers are a portal to the subconscious. Since she started mapping them out with 2022’s critically acclaimed debut album, a journey…, Omori has fast become one of the UK’s most compelling breakthrough musicians, blurring the lines between classical, electronic and ambient. Pitchfork said “remarkable” and received heavy rotation on BBC 6Music. The album on the whole is Omori’s most accessible yet, and one that evidences her true range as a composer, artist, arranger, vocalist and synth virtuoso. stillness, softness… explores a new sonic range within Omori’s world of analogue synths – namely, her Prophet ’08, the Moog Voyager and UDO Super 6, an analogue hybrid synthesizer that creates binaural, 3D-simulating sound.

Stillness, Softness… “a collage of experiments” which she then pieced together “like a puzzle”, each song representing a memory room. The end result is seamless, a continuous cycle of 13 vignettes that flow in and out of each other, recorded and written between her bedroom in London and her grandmother’s house in Yokohama, Japan.

The album on the whole is Omori’s most accessible yet, and one that evidences her true range as a composer, artist, arranger, vocalist and synth virtuoso.

Side A
1. Both Directions
2. Ember
3. Stalactites
4. Cyanotype Memories
5. In Limbo
6. Epigraph...
7. Foundation

Side B
8. In Full Bloom
9. A Structure
10. Astral
11. An Ode to Your Heart
12. Epilogue...
13. Stillness, Softness