Seattle producer HimeHime teams with Shelf Nunny for the spacey post-rock electronics of "Rigid"

Teaming with local electronic musician Shelf Nunny, HimeHime's "Rigid" is a seamless meeting of glitching electronics and chiming guitar chords.

With percussion flitting between edgy, jazzy patterns and more hip hop influenced trap beats, "Rigid" adds whooshes of electronics, bassy dips, and then drops in a spidery guitar line to shift the track from a purely electronic experience into a moving, almost elegiac post-rock song. It's a mix of restlessness and calm, and it's altogether quite lovely.

"Shelf Nunny and I met at a Red Bull Music Academy info session and bonded over our love of Daisuke Tanabe and Kidkanevil," says HimeHime. "We both hold somewhat similar styles in that we are both make extremely chill music with an emphasis on organic samples and recording our own sounds. We wanted 'Rigid' to sound lofi so we kept any sort of audio distortion emited form the Nanoloop drafts. After creating the first half of the track we both hit a writers block and decided to visit the track a month later. The second half to me was definitely inspired by Have A Nice Life with the emphasis on the 'reverbed' snare and wanting to make the drums sound as realistic as possible. We were definitely aiming for a post-rock vibe for the second half. The track title 'Rigid' comes from the rigidness of the drums of the first half in contrast to the swing of the drums in the second half."