Today, Imaad Wasif has shared the single, “We Are Hunters,” which is contemplative stunner that the artist he explains: “starts off floating in a web of narcosis and then plummets at light speed like the man who fell to earth with its pounding heartbeat dragging me along for the ride. The payoff feels like a revolutionary act of joy.” Los Angeles alternative flagship station KCRW adds: “We Are Hunters’ begins as a raga meditation and unravels into something far more feral, part Sonic Youth haze, part spiritual excavation. There’s tension in every note, a push and pull between transcendence and he weight of being human.”
An album brimming with strikingly beautiful songs, Superconsciousness finds Wasif in burst of melodic creativity. “I’ve fully gone rogue,” he explains: “I’m operating outside of the systems that I once knew. Somedays, I feel that I’ve been swept away in the rising tide of what honestly feels like a blood red sea.” “Believe,” the first single released from the album, is a fragile beauty of a song, a twinkling elegy marked by a mesmerizing piano arpeggio which opens up into a Jesus and Mary Chain-esque fuzzed out climb, which Austin Town Hall likens to “peeling back an orange, and with each revelation, a new sensation takes hold of the listener, blossoming into this powerful emotional pull that will keep you coming back.”
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