Tanukichan – Sundays (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:00 minutes | 620 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Shoegaze
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“Sundays” is the debut full length from Oakland-based Tanukichan, aka multi-instrumentalist Hannah van Loon. At surface level, the album sounds just how the title describes: hazy, dreamy, reflective, just like a lazy Sunday afternoon. Upon second and third listens, the dreamy music unveils a deeper world: an ever present sense of longing, an endless state of summer and a period of instability that plagues us all at one point or another in our lives.
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Tanukichan – GIZMO (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:12 minutes | 635 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Dreampop, Shoegaze, Female Vocal
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When the pandemic hit, Hannah van Loon adopted a dog named Gizmo, who became a much-needed companion while the Bay Area musician wrote her second album as Tanukichan. Aptly named after her new four-legged friend, GIZMO is an exercise in release, whether from situational hindrances — a forced lockdown, for one — or from self-imposed hedonistic coping mechanisms. “A theme I always had floating around was escape,” van Loon explains of her follow-up to 2018’s Sundays. “Escaping from myself, my problems, sadness and cycles.”
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