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Hip-Hop · 2019 · 9 tracks · 18m

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Eighteen minutes of tape-hiss and bittersweet piano loops. A quintessential document of the bedroom-beat era that feels like a warm, faded polaroid.

It's like a warm hug for your brain when you're up too late thinking about everything.

A gentle, loop-based meditation on memory and the quiet comfort of being alone.

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Instrumental Only+1.2σ

The vocals lean notably further into instrumental only than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks · 18m

01

hideaway

1:57

02

maria

1:56

03

huntington beach

1:59

04

milk tea

2:20

05

reminiscence

1:52

06

soy latte

2:24

07

一哈

1:43

08

we used to talk every night

2:03

09

forget me not

2:08

Moments Worth Waiting For

the muffled vocal sample in 'we used to talk every night' that feels like a memory you can't quite grasp

the way the percussion in 'milk tea' mimics the gentle clinking of a spoon against ceramic

the sudden, intimate clarity of the piano melody that emerges from the hiss on 'forget me not'

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