OHyung - IOWA (2026) [Hi-Res]

OHYUNG’s album Iowa (by Lia Ouyang Rusli) is a profoundly atmospheric and intimate exploration of the artist's eleven-month stay in rural Iowa following a move from Brooklyn. Drawing thematic parallels to Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the record features a stripped-down, self-produced aesthetic characterized by late-night gloom and "tinnitus quiet." Musically, the project blends ambient textures, surreptitious field recordings, and mangled chorales to mirror both the vastness of the Midwestern landscape and the socio-political anxieties of contemporary America. Through lo-fi tape aesthetics and subterranean bass swells, OHYUNG documents a period of personal gender transition and community building within a rectilinear state. The album concludes with a poignant tribute to the late Chris Wiersema, celebrating human connection amidst the bleak winter silence of the plains.

Tracklist:
1-1 OHyung - purgatory [4:04]
1-2 OHyung - all dolls go to heaven [4:32]
1-3 OHyung - kiara [4:26]
1-4 OHyung - january [2:40]
1-5 OHyung - dancing parakeets [2:34]
1-6 OHyung - nevada [5:26]
1-7 OHyung - driftless [4:42]
1-8 OHyung - the black angel [5:25]
1-9 OHyung - storm chaser [3:58]
1-10 OHyung - christofascism [4:41]
1-11 OHyung - fairchild [4:32]
1-12 OHyung - memorial [12:39]