Name: Water
Brand: Lotic

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-HOUND-155

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060845320720

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Lotic

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Houndstooth

Producer from Texas, currently Berlin based. Lotic is an innovative artist who pushes the boundaries of electronic music. Their unique sound blends elements of experimental, industrial, and club music to create a truly captivating sonic experience. With a discography that includes releases on prestigious labels such as Tri Angle and Janus, Lotic has gained recognition for their groundbreaking productions.

Lotic's music is often described as dark and atmospheric, with haunting melodies and intricate rhythms. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of genres including hip-hop, R&B, and classical music, they create compositions that are both complex and emotionally resonant.

In addition to their solo work, Lotic has collaborated with other notable artists in the industry such as Amnesia Scanner and GAIKA. They have also performed at renowned festivals and venues around the world, captivating audiences with their intense live shows.

J’Kerian Morgan, the artist known as Lotic presents her new album Water. “This is the record I always wanted to write. This feels like my arrival as an artist.”

Water, for Houndstooth, is a stunning revelation; a tender meditation on love’s losses and lifeforce, timelines, bloodlines, and resilience. Arriving at the end of a period Morgan recalls as, “having to be adaptable, while being dragged through the trenches,” Water adds the haunting quality of siren song to a career already marked by its engaging emotionality.

To arrive at Water meant to become like water. Lotic dedicated two years to a deep, intentional process of surrendering to softness, welcoming impermanence, embracing intimate relationships with her environment and self. Yet, to embrace vulnerability is to welcome its totality.

Water is the complete embodiment of Lotic’s dedicated praxis; one which unpicks a certain narrative about corrosive angst and outlier musicality. Compositions curve around the sub bass of an 808, with vibrations and hums superseding clarity and separation. Drums are softened to a powdery warmth, and each chapter unfolds as a symphonic sound poem. Heartful depictions of love relationships to others and the self, to ancestry and identity, are marked by stunning new expressions of ecstatic voices.

Water heals, and it harms. It can sharpen, scald or silently consume. Water is a conduit for human corruption, such as the wrenching cruelty of forced Middle Passage crossings, yet water remains a site of ritual and absolution, a source of constant renewal.

Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis.