Tokyo alternative trio She Her Her Hers have released new single ‘Tomorrow’s Sun’, arriving just weeks before the band begins its biggest UK and European tour to date. The track finds Hiroyasu Takahashi, Tomasong and Taiki Matsuura working with the dreamy guitars, synthesizers and finely layered electronic textures that have become central to their sound. There’s a deliberate stillness to ‘Tomorrow’s Sun’, capturing that strange stretch just before dawn when the darkness starts to lift but the day hasn’t quite arrived.
The idea behind the song is equally simple: one person’s sunset is someone else’s sunrise. She Her Her Hers use that thought to explore distance, loneliness and the possibility of connection across borders.
“When creating this song we imagined a light that gradually breaks through feelings of uncertainty and loneliness,” the band explain. “We hope listeners can feel the atmosphere just before dawn when the landscape slowly begins to fill with color. Most of all we hope this song encourages everyone to move forward at their own pace.”
There’s a real journey behind that sentiment. Earlier this year, following the postponement of a She Her Her Hers tour, Tomasong got on a bicycle and travelled across China for his ‘Miles for Tomorrow’s Sun’ project, visiting cities where the band had been due to perform and reconnecting with fans along the way. Those miles, landscapes and early-morning encounters eventually found their way into the thinking behind ‘Tomorrow’s Sun’.
She Her Her Hers are about to cover considerably more ground. Their 13-date European and UK tour begins at Petit Bain in Paris on September 9 and crosses France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany before finishing with five UK shows. Two appearances at Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival are included, while Antwerp and Berlin have already sold out.
It’s another step outward for a band that has steadily built an audience well beyond Japan. She Her Her Hers have accumulated more than 21 million Spotify streams and regularly tour throughout China and other parts of Asia. Last year brought their UK debut, including The Great Escape and sold-out shows at Oslo Hackney in London.
Their catalogue has developed just as steadily. Beginning with 2019’s Location and continuing through Afterglow, Diffusion of Responsibility, Pathway and most recently Fibril, the trio have gradually expanded the atmospheric electronic and guitar-driven language of their music.
‘Tomorrow’s Sun’ captures that approach in miniature. It doesn’t need to turn sunrise into some enormous revelation. Instead, She Her Her Hers linger in the few minutes before it, when there’s still some darkness around but enough light to see where you might be going next.
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