“in the making of this record, I spent a lot of time thinking about the body–its absurdities, the way it can experience pain and beauty, the ways it can be degraded, and its memories.”
San Huan
In midsummer, we wrote about the “techno-like fever dream” of Red Dust…, a 20-minute experimental electronic soundscape constructed as part of a live set by San Huan. But we also noted the other side of the artist—indie pop reverie—and that’s just what San Huan has returned with.
Recorded at Tiny Telephone with Spacemoth and featuring remixes by Bay Area artists Tomu DJ, Taraneh, and Ani Klang, To Increase the Height puts the artist’s songwriting prowess front and center. Whether in the acoustic singer-songwriter piece “Once More” or the more densely layered electro pop constructions of the title track and “Factory Girl,” San Huan meditates on the body and, unwavering, sings of global suffering and personal empowerment.
It’s all midtempo synth pop vibes until you get to the remixes: Taraneh spins “Factory Girl” into a divinely chopped up electro-techno-jungle dance track, and then Ani Klang goes hardcore, turning up the tempo even higher.
