★★★★★
Instrumental music and graphic design are more similar than you might think. Both use wordless mediums to convey meaning, and both require a particular finesse to get right. Scott Hansen, AKA Tycho, has been a producer and a graphic designer for over a decade, and his work in each field is as consummately professional as it should be by now. But competence doesn't equal resonance, a fact that's clear in Hansen's recent work...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-04-20
★★★★★
Instrumental music and graphic design are more similar than you might think. Both use wordless mediums to convey meaning, and both require a particular finesse to get right. Scott Hansen, AKA Tycho, has been a producer and a graphic designer for over a decade, and his work in each field is as consummately professional as it should be by now. But competence doesn't equal resonance, a fact that's clear in Hansen's recent work...
- www.residentadvisor.net
2014-04-20
★★★★★
Tycho released his album Awake this week. But it's not just Tycho anymore. He has teamed up with two others, Zac Brown and Rory O'Connor, to create this interstellar journey; the first lift off since his last album Dive in 2011. The ambient, chill wave, multi-talented moniker for Scott Hansen's music works stands out, even with two new apostles by his side. Tycho never fails to soothe and energize. It feels like you could touch planets when you hear his tracks in your ear...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-04-03
★★★★★
Have you ever wondered what a Boards Of Canada remix of U2 would sound like? The Edge laying down some of his finest chiming, delay-heavy licks over a track by the Sandison bros? No? Me neither if I'm honest, but as 'Awake', the opening (and title) track from the fourth (third proper) album by the San Franciscan ambient/ electronic producer and graphic designer Scott Hansen, unfurls you can hear exactly that aforementioned sonic cocktail and it sounds - well, not as awful as you might imagine...
- thequietus.com
2014-03-27
★★★★★
?????????? Tycho's music is watercolor made audible, an impressionist smattering of cool, comfortingly placid tones and hues. Part Boards of Canada and part indie soundtrack, the producer's soothing brand of electronica turns myopia into majesty, blurring and softening half-remembered melodies from some distant, undefined source. Awake, Tycho (aka Scott Hansen)'s fourth full-length effort, delivers these dreamy hallmarks in spades, but listeners might notice an uncharacteristic alertness...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
Scott Hansen (aka Tycho) is a San Franciscan graphic designer, artist and musician. Specialising in sunny, ambient electro (or IDM as our friends across the pond are so keen on calling it), his previous offerings have attracted a cult following but never (probably deliberately) tried to raise the roof...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-03-21
★★★★★
Awake has a majestic widescreen whirr that evokes a gleaming machine taking flight. Cool, hopeful, anthemic and surprisingly emotional, the album takes Scott Hansen away from the pastoral ambient music of his previous releases, into something between muscular post-rock -- complete with live musicians -- and electronic dance, nested with taut builds and breaks. Below the bold and luminous melodies, reshuffling rhythm tracks make fine adjustments to the dynamic temperature...
- wonderingsound.com
2014-03-20
★★★★★
San Francisco-based graphic designer and electronic music wizard Scott Hansen has been wowing IDM nerds for a decade. His acclaimed 2011 Ghostly International debut Dive solidified him as one of a handful of ambient music superstars, in as much as there even is such a thing. Awake, Tycho's competent follow-up, features real, live musicians: Zac Brown (bass, guitar) and Rory O'Connor (drums) are both awake and alive on these eight tracks and the result is a sound that's distinctly more human...
- filtermagazine.com
2014-03-20
★★★★★
Listening to Tycho is the aural equivalent of exploring a new art museum. The overall effect is one of remarkable beauty and you still have the option of how you'll take it in. Rush through the halls and let the general swirl of color and frozen (but still living) emotion wash over you. Or take a mannered, careful stroll, stopping at images that strike you to stare closer and closer until new colors, patterns, and themes emerge...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-03-19
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