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Tanukichan - \\u201cThin Air (feat. Enumclaw)\\u201d from the 2023 album GIZMO on Company Records.

Last month, San Francisco-based artist Hannah Van Loon, known better as Tanukichan, released her incredible sophomore record GIZMO which widened the depth of the shoegaze-indebted dreampop that she\\u2019s been making since 2016. Co-produced by Toro y Moi\\u2019s Chaz Bear, who\\u2019s been assisting Van Loon since her debut EP Radiolove, GIZMO is a massively textured record that deserves repeat listens.

One of the highlights on the record comes from an unexpected but deeply exciting collaboration with one of Seattle\\u2019s brightest rising stars, Enumclaw. The band\\u2019s frontman Aramis Johnson lends vocals on our fuzz-filled Song of the Day, \\u201cThin Air.\\u201d Johnson\\u2019s languid, disaffected croons interplay with Van Loon\\u2019s ethereal, breathy hums in a way that on paper doesn\\u2019t seem like it should work but come together magnificently for a wistful malaise that reads perfectly for this song.

"This song is about exes,\\u201d explains Van Loon. \\u201cSome people that I really cared about but ultimately didn\\u2019t want to be with.The sadness I feel when I\\u2019m hurting someone, and missing them and knowing you won\\u2019t ever have that closeness again. It\\u2019s about how important they are and how much they\\u2019ve taught me, or helped me, but how I also know that people come and go. The chorus has a double meaning for me where I feel like I can\\u2019t prioritize relationships because I need to keep on focusing on myself. The other is feeling like I\\u2019m broken and keep ending up with the wrong people, and hurting them."

Tanukichan will be playing her first KEXP in-studio session on Monday, April 24th at noon PST. Until then, relive Enumclaw\\u2019s KEXP in-studio session, recorded in November 2022, and read the full post at KEXP.org.

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