We first mentioned Boosegumps in our Favourite Free Music of 2014 series, and then wrote about the 🙂 EP back in May, a release full of “lo-fi bedroom pop that sounds pretty and sad and is infused with that sense of anxiety and loneliness that seems to define the youth of the twenty first century”. This description still sounds apt to us, as do our thoughts on the two-way healing made possible through music of the sort Heeyoon Won delivers:
“The good news is that this effect works two ways, and what acts as therapy for Won as a writer/musician has the same effect on us as the listener. It’s one of my favourite things about this kind of music, the way that an entirely personal and cathartic process is released into the big wide world to help others too”
If this sounds good to you then we have good news. Heeyoon Won has teamed up with the good folks as It Takes Time Records to put out a special edition of 🙂 on cassette, featuring the eight original EP tracks as well as seven so-far unreleased songs tacked on the end. The first single ‘Meditation’ was released a while back, the track seeing Won’s refrain “When will I see you again?” submerged beneath sparkling synths. The track gives the image of a distant lover missing her companion, staring at a sky full of shimmering stars and streaks and cosmic dust, impossibly the very same sky as the one above the person she is missing.
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The second single, unveiled today, is ‘Stole Ur Bike’, a short song clocking in at just over one and a half minutes. While the track consists of little more than a couple of verses about taking someone’s bike (or dreaming of it), it manages to exist as a larger entity, a sincere love story unfolding between the lines, one which has a long beginning and most likely a longer end, somewhere off in the distant future.
“I had a dream I stole your bike,
I had a dream you took it for a ride.
It was new, it was blue,
it was tall, as tall as you.I had a dream I stole your bike
I had a dream you took it for a ride
I took it when you weren’t looking
You were looking at the train tracksI had a dream I stole your bike
I had a dream I took it for a ride”
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You can pre-order the new edition of 🙂 now from It Takes Time Records, including on “crazy awesome tape… with crazy awesome thank you note”, which sounds crazy awesome to us.
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