orchid mantis // In Airports CD

※11月下旬発送開始します

アメリカ・アトランタのドリームポップ作家orchid mantisが、2025年11月にスロバキア・ブラティスラバのインディーレーベルStart-trackからリリースしたCDです。

ドリームポップ15曲を収録。ジュエルケース、シュリンク仕様です。

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Includes DL code.
CD in jewel case. 

Tracklist:

1. Generation Loss (ft. Lillie Weeks)
2. Comedown Phase 03:04
3. Something You Said
4. On Your Mind (ft. Marina Yozora)
5. Falling Back Asleep
6. Talk In Technicolor
7. Blissful Moon
8. In Airports
9. Highway Pileup
10. It Takes A While
11. Heart Still Hangs
12. In The Dawn
13. I'll Wake Up Soon
14. Orbiting Your Head
15. Strange Heaven 03:56

Start-track:

"The first line of In Airports, Howard’s second full-length album in 2025, references data degradation or “generation loss” as a metaphor for the fragility of memory and mental experience of aging into adulthood. In the context of his greater catalogue, this comparison could serve as a mission statement, a central conceit of his songs. Fittingly, In Airports is a retrospective synthesis of the many disparate genres and sonic ideas that have been explored in his earlier work: Four-track cassette recording, deformed samples and a surrealist approach to production, adjoined with nostalgic and introspective songwriting.

There are hints of a newly confessional approach to lyricism that is plainspoken and direct. On the title track, Howard directly examines his relationship to music-making and how it has changed: “I made it all about me / Is that a tragedy / Used to put my headphones on / Escape into a new song.” This sort of self-interrogation emerges from an obsessive devotion to recording music that now spans more than half of Howard’s life. The omnivorous instrumental approach of his production has only deepened from several years spent taking detours into focused genre experiments. And so, In Airports attempts to re-establish Howard’s core musical affect as it stands today, filtering his older signature through a lens of dubby dream pop, sparse slowcore, and maximalist shoegaze. [...]"

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From the artist:

"A few years ago I found myself stuck in an airport for about a week, spending every day walking around the terminals, watching people come and go. I'd always liked the transient feeling of temporary spaces like that. Being there for such a long time didn't detract from the magic, it only strengthened it. For almost a week, I had no purpose or goals beyond waiting for my flight. I didn't have to do anything, or change anything. Thinking back, I'm not sure I fully wanted it to end.

I think a lot of people live their life in airports. Stuck, waiting for something just over the horizon. Travelers come into their life, and leave when the time is right, but they just keep waiting. I've had a lot of conversations recently about agency and preserving your passions. About not letting yourself drift. Living with a purpose, and avoiding that sense of complacency that creeps in as you age. There's so much we can't control. So much so that it can blind us to how easily we could change. Tomorrow, you could catch that flight. You could go anywhere. You could be a new person. You could leave the airport.

Where does the time go? Everywhere." 

Artist : orchid mantis

Label : Start-track

cat no : S-T053