Solstice.
The fourth studio album from Hana Ito.
Ten tracks recorded between Tokyo and a converted barn in upstate New York — a record about the longest night and the slow return of light.
Every track, in order.
“We counted the longest night on our fingers — and woke up already turning toward the light.”
The reviews are already in.
“Her most fearless work yet.”
“Electronic music with a heartbeat.”
“Four albums in, Ito is hitting her stride.”
“A nocturnal record that never loses its pulse — Solstice glows.”
“Ito builds cathedrals out of synth haze and quiet drums.”
“The best thing she has put her name to since 2021.”
The Solstice Tour — 14 nights.
US run through June, then four shows in Japan. Tickets are general admission unless noted.
More dates added regularly · booking via the contact below
Watch “Solstice” — the title track.
From a bedroom in Sapporo to a fourth record.
Hana Ito started making music at fifteen, on a secondhand laptop in her parents' apartment in Sapporo, uploading hazy two-minute sketches to SoundCloud under a name nobody could pronounce. There was no plan and no scene — just headphones, a borrowed MIDI keyboard, and the long Hokkaido winters that gave her nothing else to do. Those early loops, all tape hiss and patience, are still audible in everything she makes.
Her 2019 debut Paper Cities arrived almost by accident after a blog post went briefly viral; the follow-ups Low Country (2021) and Northlight (2023) traded the bedroom-pop fuzz for something colder and more deliberate — drum machines treated like field recordings, vocals buried until they read as texture. By the third album she had moved to Brooklyn, toured Europe twice, and learned to trust silence as much as sound.
Solstice, her fourth, is the most assured thing she has done. Written across a Tokyo winter and finished in a converted barn upstate, it's a record about the longest night — about waiting in the dark long enough to feel the year turn. Ten tracks, no wasted motion, every synth placed like furniture in a room she has finally stopped rearranging.
Solstice merch — limited run.
Vinyl and cassette pressed in a single run of 1,000. Ships worldwide from May 8.
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