Tanukichan Releases New Track NATURAL + Debut Album SUNDAYS Out July 13

Tanukichan released a third track from her forthcoming debut album Sundays today;"Natural" is a two-and-a-half minute ode to summer love that finds Hannah Van Loon singing over fuzzy guitars, "Kiss you tonight / It's natural delight / Help me feel right."

Sundays was produced by Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi and will be released on his label Company Records on July 13. is available for pre-order now.

Tanukichan announced new U.S. tour dates today; catch her at:

7/11: Bootleg Theater - Los Angeles, CA

7/13: Boo Boo Records (in-store performance) - San Luis Obispo, CA

7/18: The Crocodile - Seattle, WA

7/25: Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA

7/27: Union Pool - Brooklyn, NY

7/29: Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL

8/01: Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA

8/03: Songbyrd - Washington, DC

PRAISE FOR TANUKICHAN:

"A veil of grinding guitar noise and tranquil, Bilinda Butcher-esque melodies" - The Fader

"A guitar sneers and bustles around van Loon's cooing falsetto, building a sunny, hazy melody. Her vocals are almost drowned out. You can't always understand what she's saying, but her tone translates an unmistakable longing." - Stereogum

"A shimmering mix of introspective songwriting and shoegaze riffs." - Hype Machine

MORE ON TANUKICHAN:

Tanukichan is the solo project of Bay Area-based Hannah van Loon. After growing up making and performing classical music and playing the violin, keys, bass and guitar, van Loon experimented with bluegrass and jazz and unexpectedly fell into making pop music with San Francisco band Trails and Ways. She toured and performed with the band for four years before feeling a need to focus on her own music again, which led to her creating solo songs and being introduced by a mutual friend to Chaz Bear of Toro Y Moi and Les Sins. Bear helped her to rework most of the songs and take chances on fully forming a new sonic direction.

Sundays, her debut full length as Tanukichan, is her first music since 2016's EP Radiolove. Produced by Bear, the record is a shoegazy and personal approach to love, loss and longing, melding vague, devastating lyrics with gorgeous dream pop music. Though Bear and van Loon played all the instruments on the record, she does have plans to play the intimate tracks live both nationally and locally. The album very much feels like a new beginning for van Loon, her music, and her relationship to the area that she was raised in; it feels like an understated declaration of a new voice that she has developed and nurtured.

Sundays is a beautiful homage to recognizing your reality, and the wants of the people around you and deciding how you will move on and grow as a person. The music sounds at home both at a beach and in a quiet bedroom, music made for the weekend days where relaxing and reflecting commingle, the long summer days that you hope will never end.

Tanukichan - Sundays

July 13, 2018 - Company Records

1. Lazy Love

2. The Best

3. Like the Sun

4. Bitter Medicine

5. Hunned Bandz

6. Natural

7. The Blue Sky

8. Sundays

9. Perfect

10. This Time

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