The Crystal Hum

The Crystal Hum is the debut vinyl release by Taiwan-based artist Yuching Huang and her first release for Night School. A beguiling dreamscape of crackles, spluttering, love-struck Casios presided over by the the spectral vocal and guitar work of Huang, Yuching sings love songs at the end of this world and the beginning of the next. Recorded during a hiatus from her group Aemong (a duo with artist Henrique Uba) in Berlin, these songs elevate Huang?s unique vocal style and grasp of atmospherics. The Crystal Hum deconstructs balladry, Garage, guitar music and reforms it into a unified ghostly otherworld version of these languages. The Crystal Hum thrums with buried desire, trails of nocturnal reverb seeping out of apartment windows, diaristic vocal performances and deeply emotive, evocative Western-style strings. Formulated by Yuching Huang after periods of frustration and experimentation, the album is an exercise in minimalism and paring back, with some tracks like JohnJohn featuring little else than an elastic bass, spring reverb trails, an interjecting vocal and swelling, dislocated synths. The effect is spellbinding, the soundtrack to getting lost in the labyrinthine, closed streets of Venice, Taipei, Hong Kong, or mirror versions of them in the imagination. On opener Fly! Little Black Thing, a subterranean funk bassline roots Huang?s singing, a rudimentary, unreliable beat floundering in whimsy underneath. Demure, dream Dance music, Huang references classic lo fi experimen

Tracks

1~1~Fly! Little Black Thing
1~2~Love
1~3~Confessions From A Soul
1~4~Thoughts
1~5~Thunder In Heaven
1~6~In My Room
1~7~The Song Of Summer
1~8~Johnjohn
1~9~Alright
1~10~You, An Illusion

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Yuching Huang
Release Date: 26 April 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: Night School Records
Distributor: Rocket Group