Bath Texts, by HimeHime

Bath Texts

by HimeHime

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jef37 Awesome mixture of ambient, downtempo & glitch music. Piano and guitar give a post-rock-mood. Beautiful & Clever album.
Favorite track: Bath Texts Part 1.

T. Night Bench This album is perfectly beautiful. "Broken" is the jam I'm crushing on... HARD! Favorite track: Broken.

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1.	Contrail (feat. WMD) 03:12	buy track
2.	She Bought Me Line Stickers 03:41	buy track
3.	Rigid (feat. Shelf Nunny) 04:04	buy track
4.	Bath Texts Part 1 03:56	buy track
5.	Bath Texts Part 2 03:11	buy track
6.	Influences (feat. Mr.Shn) 03:00	buy track
7.	Broken 03:43	buy track
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Hush Hush is proud to welcome Seattle-based electronic musician HimeHime into the fold with his transportive mini-album 'Bath Texts,' the most personal and accomplished release in the young artist’s already prolific career.

The alias of Mackenzie Simon, HimeHime began his musical journey with the guitar when he picked up the instrument at the age of eight. His development progressed while working as a children’s guitar teacher as a teenager, playing in his high school’s jazz band, and later jamming out in multiple garage rock bands. Tommy’s Guitar Shop in Everett, Washington offered him a welcome respite from school, providing a home base for lessons as well as the opportunity to mess around with various types of pedals and effects. This growing awareness of sonic manipulation, combined with his lifelong fandom of retro video gaming and video game soundtracks, further cultivated his budding interest in analog electronic sounds and composition.

His subsequent move into the heart of the city to attend Seattle University found his focus dive into electronic production, a newfound passion heavily swayed by the impactful early works of fledgling bedroom producers Baths, Shlohmo, and Hudson Mohawke. The cramped confines of a college dorm was the birthplace of countless late-night wide-eyed sonic experiments to find new ways to combine his early love of the guitar with his growing obsession with the vast capacities of electronic production. With a multifaceted sonic style that has steadily evolved over the last four years, HimeHime’s stacked back catalog offers glimpses into his bursting sonic imagination, serving up everything from early blockbuster chiptune anthems to shimmery heartbroken vocal-pop ballads to recent forays into aggressive club rhythms.

HimeHime’s expansive sound reaches new heights on 'Bath Texts,' yielding eight tracks that zone in on a lush fusion of emotive post-rock, glitchy electronics, instrumental hip-hop, and textured downtempo beats. A reflection of his recent post-college shift into adulthood, the release’s title and mood stems from Mackenzie’s tendency to de-stress after work with long baths and messaging friends on his phone. This intimate and relaxing sentiment carries throughout the hypnotic instrumental-heavy release, propelled by HimeHime’s crystalline guitars, enveloping beats, skittering rhythms, wordless ethereal vocals, and rich atmospherics. Along the journey, HimeHime receives guest assistance from three fellow Seattle area electronic producers: WMD on blissful opening track “Contrail,” Hush Hush alum Shelf Nunny on “Rigid,” and lo-fi hip-hop beat producer Mr.Shn on “Influences.” A bold step forward for the constantly growing artist, 'Bath Texts' will be released on August 25th digitally, on cassette tape, and CD, and marks HimeHime’s debut release for Hush Hush Records.

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released August 25, 2017

Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Mackenzie Simon
soundcloud.com/himehime

"Contrail" with Michael Erickson aka WMD
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"Rigid" with Christian Gunning aka Shelf Nunny
soundcloud.com/shelfnunny

"Influences" with Tayler Lee aka Mr.Shn
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Artwork and design layout by Nathan Lincoln.
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