You Are Always On My Mind
Film composer and performer Lia Ouyang Rusli re-contextualises plasticky sample pack string loops on their latest album, communicating with their former self over a polychromatic sequence of afters-friendly trip-pop vignettes.
'you are always on my mind' might come as a surprise if you're only familiar with OHYUNG's last album, 2022's NNA-released 'imagine naked!', a bewitching suite of moody new age and ambient experiments. Within a few moments of the title track, it's clear they're on another journey, singing over spiraling strings and dusty breaks as if they were covering The Chemical Brothers' 'Setting Sun'. The new full-length is an eccentric, sometimes diaristic account of their transition that's billed as a conversation between their trans self and their former self "from both perspectives." And as a film composer, their use of canned string samples is particularly resonant - the high drama and relative sterility of the sounds just strengthens the narrative.
"Anyone can see," they repeat on 'no good', "I'm no good for you." The grungy beat is almost there as a placeholder, and it's left to the lavish, baroque string flourishes - that OHYUNG counterbalances with acidic synth solos - to carry the emotional weight. The freeing power of the rave is gestured at on '5 strings {lake}', when slo-mo Plaid-style jolliness mutates into jungle and j. fisher flexes their lyrical dexterity on the mic, and the beats fall away entirely on 'id rather be a ghost...', leaving spine-chilling harp plucks, strings and OHYUNG's heartfelt Autotuned moans.
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Film composer and performer Lia Ouyang Rusli re-contextualises plasticky sample pack string loops on their latest album, communicating with their former self over a polychromatic sequence of afters-friendly trip-pop vignettes.
'you are always on my mind' might come as a surprise if you're only familiar with OHYUNG's last album, 2022's NNA-released 'imagine naked!', a bewitching suite of moody new age and ambient experiments. Within a few moments of the title track, it's clear they're on another journey, singing over spiraling strings and dusty breaks as if they were covering The Chemical Brothers' 'Setting Sun'. The new full-length is an eccentric, sometimes diaristic account of their transition that's billed as a conversation between their trans self and their former self "from both perspectives." And as a film composer, their use of canned string samples is particularly resonant - the high drama and relative sterility of the sounds just strengthens the narrative.
"Anyone can see," they repeat on 'no good', "I'm no good for you." The grungy beat is almost there as a placeholder, and it's left to the lavish, baroque string flourishes - that OHYUNG counterbalances with acidic synth solos - to carry the emotional weight. The freeing power of the rave is gestured at on '5 strings {lake}', when slo-mo Plaid-style jolliness mutates into jungle and j. fisher flexes their lyrical dexterity on the mic, and the beats fall away entirely on 'id rather be a ghost...', leaving spine-chilling harp plucks, strings and OHYUNG's heartfelt Autotuned moans.
Film composer and performer Lia Ouyang Rusli re-contextualises plasticky sample pack string loops on their latest album, communicating with their former self over a polychromatic sequence of afters-friendly trip-pop vignettes.
'you are always on my mind' might come as a surprise if you're only familiar with OHYUNG's last album, 2022's NNA-released 'imagine naked!', a bewitching suite of moody new age and ambient experiments. Within a few moments of the title track, it's clear they're on another journey, singing over spiraling strings and dusty breaks as if they were covering The Chemical Brothers' 'Setting Sun'. The new full-length is an eccentric, sometimes diaristic account of their transition that's billed as a conversation between their trans self and their former self "from both perspectives." And as a film composer, their use of canned string samples is particularly resonant - the high drama and relative sterility of the sounds just strengthens the narrative.
"Anyone can see," they repeat on 'no good', "I'm no good for you." The grungy beat is almost there as a placeholder, and it's left to the lavish, baroque string flourishes - that OHYUNG counterbalances with acidic synth solos - to carry the emotional weight. The freeing power of the rave is gestured at on '5 strings {lake}', when slo-mo Plaid-style jolliness mutates into jungle and j. fisher flexes their lyrical dexterity on the mic, and the beats fall away entirely on 'id rather be a ghost...', leaving spine-chilling harp plucks, strings and OHYUNG's heartfelt Autotuned moans.
Film composer and performer Lia Ouyang Rusli re-contextualises plasticky sample pack string loops on their latest album, communicating with their former self over a polychromatic sequence of afters-friendly trip-pop vignettes.
'you are always on my mind' might come as a surprise if you're only familiar with OHYUNG's last album, 2022's NNA-released 'imagine naked!', a bewitching suite of moody new age and ambient experiments. Within a few moments of the title track, it's clear they're on another journey, singing over spiraling strings and dusty breaks as if they were covering The Chemical Brothers' 'Setting Sun'. The new full-length is an eccentric, sometimes diaristic account of their transition that's billed as a conversation between their trans self and their former self "from both perspectives." And as a film composer, their use of canned string samples is particularly resonant - the high drama and relative sterility of the sounds just strengthens the narrative.
"Anyone can see," they repeat on 'no good', "I'm no good for you." The grungy beat is almost there as a placeholder, and it's left to the lavish, baroque string flourishes - that OHYUNG counterbalances with acidic synth solos - to carry the emotional weight. The freeing power of the rave is gestured at on '5 strings {lake}', when slo-mo Plaid-style jolliness mutates into jungle and j. fisher flexes their lyrical dexterity on the mic, and the beats fall away entirely on 'id rather be a ghost...', leaving spine-chilling harp plucks, strings and OHYUNG's heartfelt Autotuned moans.
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Film composer and performer Lia Ouyang Rusli re-contextualises plasticky sample pack string loops on their latest album, communicating with their former self over a polychromatic sequence of afters-friendly trip-pop vignettes.
'you are always on my mind' might come as a surprise if you're only familiar with OHYUNG's last album, 2022's NNA-released 'imagine naked!', a bewitching suite of moody new age and ambient experiments. Within a few moments of the title track, it's clear they're on another journey, singing over spiraling strings and dusty breaks as if they were covering The Chemical Brothers' 'Setting Sun'. The new full-length is an eccentric, sometimes diaristic account of their transition that's billed as a conversation between their trans self and their former self "from both perspectives." And as a film composer, their use of canned string samples is particularly resonant - the high drama and relative sterility of the sounds just strengthens the narrative.
"Anyone can see," they repeat on 'no good', "I'm no good for you." The grungy beat is almost there as a placeholder, and it's left to the lavish, baroque string flourishes - that OHYUNG counterbalances with acidic synth solos - to carry the emotional weight. The freeing power of the rave is gestured at on '5 strings {lake}', when slo-mo Plaid-style jolliness mutates into jungle and j. fisher flexes their lyrical dexterity on the mic, and the beats fall away entirely on 'id rather be a ghost...', leaving spine-chilling harp plucks, strings and OHYUNG's heartfelt Autotuned moans.