“Part Of Being Human” is the eclectic and introspective new album from Wenzhou, China-based Experimental Rock outfit Humans Etcetera, out now on limited edition Aqua Blue cassette tape and digital platforms worldwide. Appropriately delivering eleven new songs, the record sees Christopher Henry performing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboard, and drums for the entire album, with backing vocals from Lin Xiaoyang on the song “Lovebirds.” Henry recorded and mixed the tracks in Wenzhou, China and also created the cover art, after which the record was mastered by Pinggong in Yiwu, China.
Watch the official video for “Lovebirds” through the YouTube player below:
“Lovebirds” is a song about the contradictions between our expectations of love and the reality of love, and features haunting guest vocals by Xiaoyang, front-woman of Wenzhou based Dreampunk outfit, Night Tides. From its opening lines, ‘they cut your wings off, then you’re free to fly away,’ the song describes love’s more undesirable features: loneliness, naivety, danger, uncertainty, selfishness, and violence. Belief in the purity of love creates unrealistic expectations, and pain ten-fold when those expectations are broken. After the final lines, ‘you crash-land right through the table, breaking everything,’ the song ends with bird sounds distorted and gated so much that they sound like agonized screams.
Humans Etcetera is an Experimental Rock outfit and passion project of China-based American singer, songwriter, and recording artist Christopher Henry. Primarily a solo endeavor, occasionally infused with collaborative performances, the music of Humans Etcetera is created in the time between work with his other bands: Fuck Your Birthday, Polyphozia (both in which Henry is the singer/guitarist), and Night Tides (in which Henry’s on drums). Beginning in 2012 as an outlet for recording experiments and songwriting, Humans Etcetera continues to be an integral piece in Henry’s ever-expanding musical output.
Purchase the album here: https://www.nefariousindustries.com/collections/humans-etcetera-part-of-being-human
Watch for additional updates on the band to post over the coming months as more new material is under construction for release next year.
Tracklist:
- Trick In The Book
- No Refund
- Lovebirds
- Consumed
- Treelined
- Bored
- Ask Someone For Help
- No Reply
- Gone
- All Tree No Bark
- Gold Coast