HUDSON MOHAWKE - Cry Sugar - 2LP - Blue Vinyl

2LP - Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Blue Vinyl housed in printed inners in wide spine outer. Includes download card.

Hudson Mohawke officially returns to announce his forthcoming album, Cry Sugar due August 12th. With the announcement arriving alongside a new pair of singles in "Cry Sugar (Megamix)" and "Bicstan" plus an accompanying kingcon2k11-directed Megamix visualizer, in 2022, Hudson Mohawke cries sugar. On "Cry Sugar (Megamix)" Hudson takes various parts from the full album to offer a window into the project's full sonic palette ahead of release, while "Bicstan" dabs elements of Roland TB-303 flecked acid and driving gabber alongside floating, effervescent vocals and Kerri Chandler-esque house chords.

His third album, Cry Sugar, deepens his practice of producing motivational music for club goers-uplifting the debauchery and inspiring many through his own brand of anthemic maximalism. Trading in his lineage in dark UK back-alleys filled with Glaswegian antipathy for studio sessions with blazed Pavarotti-inspired tenors and drunk string quartets, Mohawke has dialed in an ongoing fascination with melding high and low culture. After all, he is indeed the architect for the high peaks of high-definition trap production that became embellished in the 2010s-a style that has been appropriated in everything from beer can littered college parties to Arby's commercials. American decadence, then, becomes a stage for his music to thrive-where the DJ booth becomes a composer's podium for him to conduct the tense drama between debauchery and apocalypse, the "mise-en-scene" of club culture in 2022.

He has developed a production style able to integrate elements of jazz fusion, prog rock, happy hardcore, chiptune, and more with formal educations in rave, hip-hop, soul, IDM, and glitch. The broad and complex nuance of all these genres and more has become the palette of the Hudson Mohawke sound.

Cry Sugar, serves as Hudson Mohawke's first work deeply informed by apocalyptic film scores and soundtracks by everyone from the late Vangelis to the goofy major-chord pomp of 90s John Williams. Cry Sugar also serves as Mohawke's own demented OST to score the twilight of our cultural meltdown. As the album's artwork (by Wayne horse Willehad Eilers) depicts-we are arm-in-arm with the Ghostbusters marshmallow man, returning home while swinging a bottle of Jack only to gaze out at the gray tempest of a coming catastrophe.

Despite the apocalyptic undercurrent, Mohawke foregrounds the iridescent vibrattos of gospel choirs, soul samples, and scat-sampling throughout Cry Sugar-scaling our bright human drama in the tumult. Known for his deft uses of fragmentation and deconstruction, Mohawke presents our fraught cultural moment as set against the quintessential backdrop of late capitalism-a tightrope walking between chaos and the unashamedly euphoric, between the erratic and the bold, the noisy and anthemic, the saccharine with the devastating. Cry Sugar becomes a testament of its namesake. In our most intimate, melancholic moments, something sweet and twisted emerges. A wry smile beneath the malice. In 2022, we cry sugar.

Tracklist:

A1. Ingle Nook
A2. Intentions
A3. Expo
A4. Behold
A5. Bicstan
A6. Stump

B1. Dance Forever
B2. Bow
B3. Is It Supposed
B4. Lonely Days

C1. Redeem
C2. Rain Shadow
C3. KPIPE
C4. 3 Sheets To The Wind
C5. Some Buzz

D1. Tincture
D2. Nork 69
D3. Come A Little Closer
D4. Ingle Nook Slumber