These Nights Are Ours

  Hold It Together by w u s o 命   Notes Haunting Memories - The track slowly fades in and washes over you with a low tone, any sense that there is nature as an influence on this album is quickly washed out the window.  This is absolutely an urban setting for this release.  The deep tone and the synths over it all embrace the sense that this is something artificial, something man made.  Samples of a woman speaking (in japanese?) sprinkle the background as the track slowly begins to take shape.  It's obvious that despite the 4 minute run time in the track it is in no hurry to get anywhere.  ‘ In fact this is one of the themes of the album, this album embraces mood and atmosphere over any sort of instant gratification.  We are meant to wait for the payoff, and we are meant to immerse ourselves in this world that Hold it Together brings for us to observe.  This right here is one of the reasons why I love this album so very much.  It takes time to bloom, it takes its time to show th

      “Hold It Together is literally the message of the album. That despite everything that is going on in your life, whether you’re haunted by memories of a bygone time or you’re struggling with current events, you have to hold it together and keep yourself collected, because it is guaranteed that there are probably millions going through the exact same things that you are, and you can find solidarity in that .” - w u s o 命 April 2021 A year ago - April 2020 - I got a package in the mail, having just discovered a label by the name of Dream Catalogue .  I got six records that I had been told were vaporwave.  These weren’t like other vaporwave albums that I’d heard though, these were quite different.  As I was listening to  チェスマスター’s I am Chesumasta ,  2 8 1 4’s 新しい日の誕生 and Remember’s The City is My Friend , I found myself enthralled by the visual art styles and how they perfectly matched the music on those records.   Each one of those releases came with a specific tag: dreampunk.