WAKEN, by Cuushe

WAKEN

by Cuushe

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L˥ Great album in total. Favorites are for chumps. I like this entire album. Nobody<3. Emergence<3. The piano arps on Drip!, Beautiful is beautiful. Spread is an amazing ender. Great to hear Cuushe is back. Favorite track: Not to Blame.

daxi very rich, ethereal, cloudy Favorite track: Emergence.

Kristinn S Beautiful album. So optimistic and inspiring! Favorite track: Beautiful.

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1.	Hold Half 03:20		buy track
2.	Magic 03:37	info	buy track
3.	Emergence 05:57		buy track
4.	Not to Blame 03:13		buy track
5.	Nobody 03:32		buy track
6.	Drip 03:38		buy track
7.	Beautiful 03:11		buy track
8.	Spread 06:07		buy track

about

It’s early morning. You wake up from a dream. It’s still dark. You’re full of uncertainty, but also hope. That’s the spirit that longtime Flau family member Cuushe is capturing on her new album WAKEN.

Cuushe has lived what could be described as a dreamy life, changing residences between different global cities around the world: Kyoto, Osaka,Tokyo, London and Berlin. But after the traumatic experience of harassment the dream seemed to have ended. She became keenly aware of feeling powerless.

But, rediscovering herself during this period, and following a hospitalization earlier in 2020, Cuushe has shed the fog of her previously dream-pop creations and put the clear outlines of reality on her music. Opening up with the cold morning light of ‘Hold Half’, WAKEN moves through flamboyant analog synthesizers that seem to communicate with the universe, distorted guitars and mille-feuille-layered choruses, such as on the touching ‘Beautiful’. Wildly struck snares and beats recall the rave sounds of the '90s, energetic, carefree.

It results in a dense dance floor of sound, from the UK garage-tinged rainy night feel of ‘Emergence’ and the shuffling tick of ‘Drip’, all the way to the tumble of vital drum and bass-flavoured beats in ‘Not to Blame’. With this strong percussive foundation, WAKEN thumps with a heartbeat of self-expansion and solidarity, an exercise in freedom. Cuushe’s voice — once hazy, indistinct — is now stronger, louder and clearer than ever, looking forward into the light.

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released November 20, 2020

artwork by Yoko Kuno
design by A+A, Paris

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