2X GRAMMY Award-nominated Tycho has announced their new album, INFINITE HEALTH (Mom + Pop / Ninja Tune). Tycho is the project of celebrated San Francisco songwriter, musician, and producer Scott Hansen, and the new album, co-produced with Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Tycho guitarist Zac Brown, is heralded by today’s premiere of the first song, “Phantom,” streaming now at all DSPs. The accompanying video, a collaboration with Ricardo B. Ponce aka Pixel Flux, is also available today and is streaming now on YouTube. Infinite Health will be released on Friday, August 30, 2024.
Sonically, Infinite Health 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.”
The results sparkle, none more so than on lead single, “Phantom”, which Hansen cites as his favorite track on the album. Accompanied by a suitably iridescent, 80s-influenced visual, the upbeat track sees Tycho’s trademark sound imbued with an Italo Disco neon noir.
“I wanted ‘Phantom’ to feel like a blend of lights in a nightclub with some unknown entity; a moving and shifting intelligence that served as a conduit to a deeper understanding of what’s beneath the surface of existence,” says Hansen. “It’s also about coming to terms with mortality, with the phantom being the ever-present specter. I spent more hours on this song than any other on the record. I played a Juno emulation for that bassline, and I feel like that bassline, and style of bass playing, is something pretty new for me.”
Tracklist:
Consciousness Felt
Phantom
Restraint
Devices
Infinite Health
Green
DX Odyssey
Totem
Epilogue
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Tycho will celebrate the release of Infinite Health with a wide-ranging North American headlining tour beginning September 13, at Ogden, UT’s Ogden Twilight, and ending on November 16 at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN. The complete itinerary is below.
TYCHO INFINITE HEALTH TOUR 2024
SEPTEMBER
13 – Ogden, UT – Ogden Twilight
14 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Concert House
15 – Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre
17 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
18 – Vancouver, BC – New Hollywood Theater
19 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
20 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory Concert House
21 – Bozeman, MT – The ELM
23 – Missoula, MT – The Wilma
25 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
27 – Stateline, NV – Harrah’s LAke Tahoe
28 – San Francisco, CA – Portola Music Festival 2024
OCTOBER
29 – San Diego, CA – The Sound
30 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
31 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
NOVEMBER
3 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
4 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
7 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
8 – Pelham, TN – The Caverns
9 – Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
10 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
11 – Boston, MA – Royale
12 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
14 – Toronto, ONT – History
15 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
16 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
