Having preemptively announced his North American tour last week, Scott Hansen of Tycho has now brought forth plans for a new album to match. Infinite Health is coming August 30 via Mom + Pop Records in the US and Ninja Tune globally.
The musician explained in a release that the album is "about hope for the future and a requiem for the past."
He continued:
I kept thinking back to the high-water mark scene in Fear and Loathing, the author sitting at a typewriter looking out a window onto his past, trying to find meaning in the chaos. Infinite Health is about creating a space for healing and reflection, a mantra for spiritual, emotional, and physical healing. At the end of the day, all we really have is our health — both physical and mental — and we wish infinite health to our family and friends. So in those ways, infinite health is a salutation and an imperative.
Hansen has also shared the previously teased new single "Phantom," which you can hear below. It arrives alongside a video animated by Ricardo B. Ponce (a.k.a. Pixel Flux) and edited by Hansen.
"I wanted it to feel like a blend of lights in a nightclub with some unknown entity," Hansen shared of the track. "The phantom; a moving and shifting intelligence that serves as a conduit, maybe a deeper understanding of what's beneath the surface of this all. It's also about coming to terms with mortality (the phantom being the ever-present spectre of mortality)."
Check that out below, where you'll also find the album's tracklist.
Infinite Health:
1. Consciousness Felt
2. Phantom
3. Restraint
4. Devices
5. Infinite Health
6. Green
7. DX Odyssey
8. Totem
9. Epilogue