New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Tanukichan, the shoegaze project of
Hannah van Loon, shared a new single from her forthcoming debut album Sundays today. Stereogum premiered "Perfect," saying, "A guitar sneers and bustles around van Loon's cooing falsetto, building a sunny, hazy melody. Her vocals are almost drowned out. You can't always understand what she's saying, but her tone translates an unmistakable longing."
Sundays was produced by Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi and will be released on his label Company Records on July 13. The album also includes previously released single "Lazy Love" ("a veil of grinding guitar noise and tranquil, Bilinda Butcher-esque melodies" - The Fader).
Tanukichan will be playing shows in Oakland, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn in June and July.
Catch her at:
6/13: Starline Social Club - Oakland, CA
7/11: Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA
7/27: Union Pool - Brooklyn, NY
Tanukichan is the solo project of Bay Area-based
Hannah van Loon. After growing up making and performing classical music and playing the violin, keys, bass and guitar, van Loon experimented with bluegrass and jazz and unexpectedly fell into making pop music with San Francisco band Trails and Ways. She toured and performed with the band for four years before feeling a need to focus on her own music again, which led to her creating solo songs and being introduced by a mutual friend to Chaz Bear of Toro Y Moi and Les Sins. Bear helped her to rework most of the songs and take chances on fully forming a new sonic direction.
Sundays, her debut full length as Tanukichan, is her first music since 2016's EP Radiolove. Produced by Bear, the record is a shoegazy and personal approach to love, loss and longing, melding vague, devastating lyrics with gorgeous dream pop music. Though Bear and van Loon played all the instruments on the record, she does have plans to play the intimate tracks live both nationally and locally. The album very much feels like a new beginning for van Loon, her music, and her relationship to the area that she was raised in; it feels like an understated declaration of a new voice that she has developed and nurtured.
Sundays is a beautiful homage to recognizing your reality, and the wants of the people around you and deciding how you will move on and grow as a person. The music sounds at home both at a beach and in a quiet bedroom, music made for the weekend days where relaxing and reflecting commingle, the long summer days that you hope will never end.
