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Artist......: Photay
Album.......: Waking Hours
Label.......: Mexican Summer
Genre.......: Electronic
Catnr.......: MEX263
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2024-12-02
Str.date....: 2020-06-12
Quality.....: 771 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://pho-tay.com
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1. Existential Celebration 4:34
2. Warmth in the Coldest Acre 4:34
3. Is It Right? 4:28
4. Fanfare for 83 Hz 5:29
5. Change in Real Time 1:57
6. The People 5:04
7. Rhythm Research 5:29
8. Pressure 5:18
9. EST 4:52
10. A Beautiful Silence Prevails 1:29
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,: It's 2020, and everyone is exhausted. Things are falling apart, :,
: and then there's the day-to-day stress of simply existing in the :
:' modern world. Screens are everywhere, we're all tethered to our ':
,: phones and social media; trying to keep up with it all seems :,
: just as impossible as unplugging altogether, especially when :
:' we're all feeling that neverending push to always be ':
,: productive inspiration and motivation be damned. :,
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:' For NYC artist Photay (a.k.a. Evan Shornstein), none of this is ':
,: particularly conducive to living a healthy existence, let alone :,
: being creative, but he's decided to face it head on. Waking :
:' Hours, his second full-length (following 2017's Onism), is a ':
,: meditation on time and, more specifically, our obsessive need to :,
: fill every moment with activity. "It's about getting back to a :
:' really simple notion of just celebrating your existence and not ':
,: necessarily attaching this huge story of who you are and what :,
: you do," he says. "It's about finding comfort in just being." :
:' ':
,: Photay's search for calm is at the very core of Waking Hours, :,
: and while he admits that making the album was therapeutic, it :
:' shouldn't be mistaken for some sort of healing ambient ':
,: excursion. The LP is largely electronic, but frequently verges :,
: on pop and extensively features Shornstein's own vocals. The :
:' music is intimate and inviting, but it also suggests that ':
,: Photay is perhaps at his best when he's blurring genre :,
: boundaries. "I really truly love so many different types of :
:' music," he says, "and for this album I opened things up and ':
,: gave myself the freedom to go anywhere." :,
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