Tycho unveil new single "Japan"

"Japan" lands after last month's "Pink & Blue" and April's "Easy". The new single also features vocals from Saint Sinner's Hannah Cottrell.

Speaking about the new single, Tycho's Scott Hansen says, "I had just returned from spending some time in Hakone, Japan with my wife’s Japanese relatives. I was thinking a lot about the kinds of electronic music instruments I had been using when I first started making music in the late ‘90s. With Japan I was trying to recapture a part of that sound and combine it with the imagery and experiences from my trip to Hakone. I sent the song to Hannah with nothing more than the title of Japan and she wrote all of the lyrics."

There is also an instrumental version of the single. Hansen says, "Similar to "Pink & Blue" the instrumental versions are not just the songs with vocals muted, they are different arrangements with different instrumentation and melodies in place of the vocals. I wanted to explore the idea of approaching songs from two entirely different perspectives."

Tycho's new album Weather is their first since 2016's Epoch.