HOURAI ETERNITY - "NHC REMINDS YOU TO BOOST YOUR MORALE" (25 min.)
RELEASED : September 7, 2024
CODE NUMBER AND FORMAT : NHC-0003 / YouTube Video + Digital Download
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The album starts with a generic piano with occasionally repeating segments. A deep voice can be heard repeating the phrases "Love songs on romantic piano" and "The bitter the better is what they say when true love comes along the way".
After the spoken word, the repetitions stop but the song gets more entangled over time. Around the third minute, a different but similar song can be heard sometimes repeating, changing pitch or speed, and reversing. It's very unpredictable.
Around the fourth minute, the piano speeds up and cuts to a different song with strings. After it's finished, A slow woodwind song can be heard stuttering. Sped up parts of other songs are skipping as the radio buttons are pushed.
The music stops, and we hear the same tape distortion that ends the previous album. A slow muffled song plays, and becomes clear and sped up around the sixth minute. A small instrumental loop cuts to a different song.
The singer is repeatedly singing "We should- (re)member" a couple of times. Around the seventh minute, it cuts to a different song. It has repeating drums and a recorder building up. The singer says "Sister Susie"
and "Brother John" repeatedly. After exclaiming "Let 'em in!" a few times, the rest of the instrumentals can be heard with some sections repeating. That was the first track lasting nine minutes in total.
The second track starts with a short loop of a chill drum coupled with piano chords repeating in random intervals. The phrase "This is wrong" is repeated over the previous loops. More singers can be heard in the background, but the lyrics
aren't clear. All three features continue for the rest of the track. Repeating piano and drums, "This is wrong", and the chorus. That was the second track lasting seven minutes in total. The third track starts with the repeating phrase
"Thinking back, it's so bizzare; it runs in the family" a couple of times, and later repeating the phrase "All the things we" over and over again. The sounds and drums slowly start to clash into each other, and it transitions
into another song with the phrase "You're gonna have to" repeating. Another phrase "Face the future" can be heard fading in the background, which completes the phrase: "You're gonna have to face the future".
One last song with the lyrics "For always and ever, it's always for you" and "Your trust, the most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world" fades in towards the end. "It goes deeper still" echoes repeatedly until the tape is stopped.
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