Weather
| Tycho featuring Saint Sinner
Weather
Weather is the fifth studio album by ambient music project Tycho, released on July 12, 2019. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Easy" and "Pink & Blue", the latter of which was released along with the album announcement on May 14, 2019. Tycho will embark on a world tour in late 2019 and into 2020 in support of the album. -Wikipedia
Critic Reviews
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All Music
Weather functions as one would expect of Tycho's vision of a pop album -- it's immaculately crafted as well as relatable, while also smooth and unchallenging enough to warrant repeated background listening.
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Paste Music
Strangely, for an artist so keen on not ruffling feathers, Tycho often leaves you wanting to have your feathers ruffled after all.
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Magnetic Magazine
The album starts with an instantly recognizable little synth bit on “Easy” and then eases through the rest of the 30-minute album. It is a journey through the mesh of organic sounds and vocals with his dreamy indie electronica.
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The Line of Best Fit
Weather is yet another example of Scott Hansen’s musical craftsmanship and excitingly it clearly illustrates the validity of his collaborative efforts with other musical artists.
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The Skinny
Tycho's fifth album incorporates vocals from Saint Sinner in a new evolution of Scott Hansen's electronic project
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Pop Matters
Album closer "Weather" ties the whole album together as Tycho knits together twinkling keyboard lines and oscillating synths that trip and skip over a steady beat.
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Northern Transmissions
As a whole it creates such a lovely dynamic, more so then when listening to it piecemeal. By the time the album concludes, with title track “Weather” slowly fading out, it feels as if you have gone on a nice little journey with the group.
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The Fountain
The project failed to evoke greater excitement. However, if the single is any indication of potential - practice makes perfect. Much like with kissing.
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Riff Magazine
If Weather was 10 minutes longer and continued the leap that Hansen began with the first songs, it would be an unquestioned winner.
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mxdwn
Tycho manages to improve his sound in many ways while also experimenting more with vocal features and how to fit that against his melodic and frequently busy production. He is less subtle on Weather, the experimentation is here, and there is a sense that he is trying hard to build on his strengths and success.
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Stack
This new album represents both a welcome return and a reinvention for a musician as reliable as the weather is changeable.
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AP
It’s a fresh sound, one that shows Hansen’s intent to weather the storm and keep his fans guessing where his music will take them next.
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ABC News
California-artist Scott Hansen, better known as Tycho, brings new direction to sound on fifth album, "Weather".
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Everything Is Noise
Weather is a really interesting album. It’s a really big evolution for Tycho without changing any of his core sound identity. To me, that’s an absolutely brilliant move.
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wtop
On “Weather,” the vocal presence only gains strength as the songs continue, giving Hansen’s work an entirely new feel.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The title track is typical Tycho: a hypnagogic haze of shimmering guitar synths and spacious, breezy percussion. It’s all nice enough, but by this stage it is also as familiar as your morning Weet-Bix.
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Musikexpress
In the background of the Weather songs, the multi-colored tycho sound image remains, which spreads moods between slowed down euphoria and melancholy.
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Spill Magazine
Scott Hansen claims “Weather intends to reveal a more human side to the music, with the vocal and lyrical components adding a whole new dimension of warmth and life.”
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Music OMH
The earthy textures that come from mixing analogue (or at least analogue-esque) synths and guitars are intoxicating, perfectly splitting the difference between easy listening electronic and contemplative post-rock, and Weather contains plenty of this.
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Audioxide
There’s easy listening, and then there’s something like Weather. This is ambient Muzak. For all its smoothness and gentleness it barely leaves any impression at all.
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London in Stereo
Heading into Weather, opening track ‘Easy’ does very little to win over Tycho’s detractors. Whilst the band’s music swells with a certain cinematic grandeur, it often feels unsurprising.
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Gigwise
Tycho's fifth studio album, Weather introduces vocal-led tracks for the first time in the collective's history – a change which signals reinvention, but delivers iteration.
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Treble
Hansen’s new album Weather indulges his self-imposed creative challenge to incorporate actual singing into his work.
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Far Out Magazine
Unlike Tycho’s previous albums, Weather surprises us with the addition of vocal components featuring Hannah Cottrell (aka Saint Sinner).
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Pop Dust
On Weather, though, Tycho paints the picture, and then Saint Sinner tells you what it means.
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Exclaim
Weather represents an exciting new phase of Hansen's musical progression.
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thissongissick
Day one Tycho fans have no fear, the eight track album includes three stunning instrumental tracks, “Easy”, “Into The Woods” and “Weather”, as well as instrumental versions of “Japan” and “Pink + Blue”. These alternative tracks aren’t just the original with the vocals cut out, they have entirely new arrangements for you to explore.
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Qobuz
With fifth album Weather, Scott Hansen distills the signature Tycho sound into the most accessible it's ever been, keeping all the songs around three or four minutes.
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I Am Tuned Up
Few songs can make me calm down with simply a thought, but this entire album can. The inclusion of vocals from San Franscisco’s Saint Sinner has been polarizing to Tycho fans, and even I was a bit leery at the thought at first.
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Spectrum Culture
Tycho’s Weather doesn’t reach the atmospheric heights of his post-chillwave classics Dive and Awake, but because he’s borrowing from pop instead of rock this time around, it’s less aggressive and more interesting than 2017’s cheap-seats gift Epoch.
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Clash
Appropriately it's a visually enticing return, with Tycho's rhythmically dynamic production set against those heavenly vocals from Hannah Cottrell.
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The Music
Quite beautiful, but vapid.
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The Malta Independent
On "Weather," the vocal presence only gains strength as the songs continue, giving Hansen's work an entirely new feel.
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SMPLE
On Weather, his formerly sedative sound morphs into a vivid dream; the consoling kind you never really want to wake up from.
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OzClubbers
Tycho shifts in a different direction, without losing too much of the previous album trilogy on ‘Weather.’
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The China Post
The change is welcomed. The production value is uncompromised with Sinner’s haunting vocals adding another layer to Hansen’s unmistakable songwriting and genius production.
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