Vienna Based Musician Inner Tongue's Debut Album FAVOURS Out Today

The Vienna based musician, Inner Tongue's debut album Favours (Mount Silver Records/Caroline International), is out everywhere today.

With elements that at times recall James Blake, Childish Gambino and Frank Ocean, Favours boasts delicacy and astonishing depth. Inner Tongue is also able to creatively combine a lightness of touch that distinguishes Death Cab For Cutie, the heartfelt perfection found in Sohn's sonic realms, and the intuition evident in Chet Faker.

The story behind Favours, and the reason it sounds the way it does, is a remarkable one. In 2013 Inner Tongue was diagnosed with a rare vocal-cord disorder so severe that only a handful of specialists throughout the entire world were capable of treating it. The resulting surgery left him, for a time, unable to talk. The months that followed his operation were emotionally and physically shattering, but he eventually began composing again. Singing was out of the question, "so I decided to modify my musical focus temporarily by writing songs which could produce a melodic tension without vocals, but which featured the traits of forward-looking pop music. It was as if someone had pressed a reset button on the musical identity I had of myself."

Inner Tongue Favours

Tracklisting

1. Lamaq Part I

2. Dig Deeper

3. Wallbreaker

4. Next Life

5. New York

6. 2 Seconds

7. Teeth

8. Somebody Knows It

9. Fallen Empire

10. Underworld

11. Catch

12. Lamac Part II

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