Tycho
Dive
Repress on orange and red marble vinyl! While his formative years were spent listening to everything from Yes to Photek, Scott Hansen didn't get his hands on an actual guitar or drum machine until he left his native Sacramento for San Francisco in 1995. Nearly a decade passed before the release of Hansen's first proper Tycho LP, 'Sunrise Projector' (later expanded and reissued under the title 'Past Is Prologue'). And while three striking singles have emerged since then, the sum of all those sepia-toned parts is nowhere near the double-exposed soundscapes of 'Dive'. The product of a prolonged break from Hansen's design work and blog, it pays tribute to Tycho's prismatic past but spends most of its time pointing to the project's not-so-distant future.