This weeks’ Reality combine, from producer Himera, is what falling in love on the web appears like, the overdriven, hyper saturated soundtrack to vaping within the membership, k-holing within the lavatory and crying on the bus on the best way residence.
Earlier this month the Latvian-born, Amsterdam-based producer Himera launched their debut album, Sharing Secrets and techniques, a heart-swelling, hair-raising, bliss-inducing assertion of intent that throws large open the doorways onto a significant new world we had beforehand solely caught glimpses of on their beloved 2020 EP, Extra Than Associates, their 2021 collaboration with partner-in-crime Petal Provide, ‘You Make It Look So Straightforward,’ in addition to dewy-eyed remixes of the identical monitor from Malibu and Mura Masa. Himera captures ecstatic rushes of intimacy and jubilation in full-bodied, hyperactive sound, transplanting the abstracted signifiers of trance, completely happy hardcore and excessive pc music, components that the PC Music crew and related artists have spent one of the best a part of the final decade synthesising into what’s now generally known as hyperpop, again onto extra adventurous dance flooring, each URL and IRL. That is what falling in love on the web appears like, the overdriven, hyper saturated soundtrack to vaping within the membership, k-holing within the lavatory and crying on the bus on the best way residence.
What Sharing Secrets and techniques continues to show is that, above all, Himera makes music about friendship. “Friendship, and the moments that come from it, is unquestionably my most important supply of inspiration for my music,” they not too long ago informed AQNB. “Be they the happiest moments or probably the most bittersweet ones, the easiest way for me to lock in these reminiscences is to put in writing little tunes about them.” From Hannah Diamond’s pining vocals on ‘Kiss’ and the rain-flecked reminiscences of sharing an umbrella on the best way again from a celebration that drive the bubblegum marching tune of ‘Umbrella’ to the Shepard tone epiphanies of ‘At the moment, I Opened My Eyes’ and the guts breaking swell of ‘Good Night time, I Hope The Future Brings You Solely The Greatest!,’ Sharing Secrets and techniques points forth in a language of optimism and affection, the place having religion in your mates and being in love shines sensible mild on a extra caring approach of being on this planet. “I simply need somebody to press the pause button on actuality and go into this imaginary little world with me,” Himera concludes.
For his or her delirious Reality combine, Himera delivers a whiplash-inducing retrospective on the yr main as much as Sharing Secrets and techniques, shifting between unreleased originals and manufacturing variations, remixes of buddies and heroes EASYFUN, A. G. Cook dinner, Carly Rae Jepsen and Ariana Grande, in addition to some extra mysterious inclusions. “This can be a mixture of originals and remixes, largely unreleased,” says Himera. “I needed to compile plenty of the sounds and melodies that I’ve been engaged on for the previous yr or so, main as much as the completion of ‘Sharing Secrets and techniques’. It consists of some additional Secrets and techniques that can slip out quickly sufficient.”
Yow will discover Himera on Instagram, Twitter and Bandcamp. Sharing Secrets and techniques is out now.
Tracklist:
Himera – ‘Giggle’
Himera – ‘Our Backyard’
Himera – ‘Spellbound’
Himera – ‘You Make It Look So Straightforward’ (Squeeky VIP)
EASYFUN – ‘Audio’ (Himera Remix)
former hero – ‘Altering Tense’ x Himera – ‘I Imply Love’
Petal Provide – ‘1’ (Himera ReRemix)
Himera – ‘Something For You’
A. G. Cook dinner – ‘Stargon’ (Himera Bootleg)
? – ‘?’ (Himera Perfume)
Carly Rae Jepsen – ‘Name Me Perhaps’ (Himera’s Dancefloor Remix)
Ariana Grande – ‘One Final Time’ x Bloom OS – ‘?’
Unu & co2 – ‘Valuable Phrases’ (Himera Remix)
Planet 1999 – ‘crush’ (Himera Rinse)
Himera – ‘Thrash’
Himera – ‘Bubblegum Interlude’
Bloom OS – ‘At all times’ (Himera & Olipra’s Bonus Degree)
Himera – ‘A Tune I Heard in a Dream’
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