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♫ listen → We Are (우리는) is the first single featuring HYUKOH. An incantation for an album that sees Chung's scope as composer, producer and arranger exceed all expectation. Continua is out worldwide, October 28 on LUCKYME® “Nosaj Thing conjures nothing less than rapture” - John Parales, The New York Times (2022) 연못에 바위를 던지면 퍼지는 둥근 원처럼 우리는 줄지어 커져가는 우리는 우리가 모두고 모두가 우리야 그런데 우리는 뭐하나 뭐 하나 무얼하나 Don’t come back Don’t come back to this while we’re young But why don’t you come back Why come back to this while we’re young We’re in trouble from afar We are we are We are we are Los Angeles’ Nosaj Thing returns with his fifth album, Continua. In the five years since his last full length, Jason W. Chung has proceeded through family health-scares and house break-ins: those tectonic shifts that help define our character. Throughout the recording, Jason referred to a photo he’d acquired the rights to, from fabled hip hop photographer Eddie Otchere. The image depicted an open road at dusk: somewhere remote, high in the Western Highlands of Scotland. The image possesses an embodied, cinematic quality, begging the viewer to continue down the path can’t foresee. Consequently, Jason trucked forward gathering friends and likeminded artists across emerging Hip Hop, Jazz, Soul and the Avant Garde: HYUKOH, Toro y Moi, Kazu Makino, serpentwithfeet, Sam Gendel, Coby Sey, Julianna Barwick, Mike Andrews, Slauson Malone, Pink Siifu, Panda Bear & Eyedress. Patiently sculpting a record that encourages us to keep going. Nosaj Thing's expertise is in crafting exquisite soundscapes that hold a mirror up to his journey from noise and punk shows at DIY venue The Smell, to his debut sets at Low End Theory, to touring with The xx and The Weeknd. Throughout, he has innovated with a live experiences conceived with Tokyo-based AV savant Daito Manabe. Chung's music carries such visceral humanity it feels like a disservice to refer to the 'mood' which pervades his records. But it's exactly that distinct mood which has made Nosaj Thing such a cult artists across his 16-year-deep discography. “one of hip-hop’s preeminent modern minimalists, and the results are frequently sublime… assembled with almost architectural grace” - Pitchfork We Are (우리는) video directed by Phil Nisco & Donovan Novotny, with animation by Eric Hu. We Are (우리는) is written, produced and performed by Jason W. Chung with OHHYUK (Vocals), Martyn (Additional Drum Production), HYUKOH (Guitar, Bass, Synth), Sunny Levine (Additional Production). Mastered by Mike Bell. #NosajThing #hyukoh #electronic #indie
