Los Angeles-based duo TANGIENTS — Chelsea Hope Ray and Be Hussey — have released their debut album Embers, and it comes loaded with two music videos to get lost in.
If you're into early 4AD, Projekt Records, Cocteau Twins, or Slowdive, this one was made for you. Embers is a deeply introspective, sonically immersive body of work that navigates time, memory, loss, and renewal. As Ray describes it, it's "a cry for nostalgia in its most yearning form as well as an awakening to the unknown."
The album's standout opener "We Are Listening" is built on a 1963 Hammond A-100 organ and serves as a deeply personal homage to Ray's late grandmother. The album moves through urgency and atmosphere — tracks like "Pulsar B1919+21" and "Sicker Than You Seem" pulse with restless energy, while "Nightscape" drifts into the ethereal, drawing influence from the poetry of Rumi.
The duo has also released two music videos:
TANGIENTS craft a modern interpretation of nu-gaze — a hybrid sound shaped by the DNA of '80s post-punk, '90s shoegaze, and dream pop's endless horizon.
