浴室
deca joins
"浴室" (Bathroom) is deca joins at their most submerged — the Taipei band's signature lo-fi haze thickened into something genuinely aquatic, guitars swimming in reverb until the reverb becomes the primary instrument. The production sounds recorded through a wall, which is the whole point: the bathroom is the last private room in a crowded life, the place where the tiles amplify your own breathing and you can finally fall apart without an audience. 鄭敬儒's vocal is the band's secret weapon here, half-mumbled and drowsy, Mandarin syllables softened until meaning arrives as tone before it arrives as language. He doesn't emote; he leaks. The lyrics gesture at running water, at being unable to get clean, at a numbness that isn't quite sadness — the Taiwanese indie tradition of writing about interiority through domestic objects, kin to 落日飛車's languor but sadder, less coy. There's a slow-build tension: the song never quite explodes, just gets more saturated, the shoegaze wash rising like a filling tub. deca joins made a career out of this feeling — youth as a kind of pleasant drowning. Play it at 2am with the exhaust fan on, sitting on the floor, phone face-down, letting the day dissolve before you sleep.
slow
2010s
aquatic, saturated, hazy
Taiwan
Shoegaze, Indie rock. lo-fi shoegaze. Melancholic, Numb. Begins submerged and slowly saturates, the reverb rising like a filling tub until heaviness replaces any possibility of release. energy 3. slow. danceability 2. valence 2. vocals: half-mumbled, drowsy, tonal, softened, leaking. production: heavy reverb, wall-of-guitar shoegaze wash, lo-fi room sound, submerged mix. texture: aquatic, saturated, hazy. acousticness 4. era: 2010s. Taiwan. Sitting on the bathroom floor at 2am with the exhaust fan on, phone face-down, letting the day dissolve before sleep.