![]() I wanted to have a sound that really implemented that. It’s almost like an awakening, so that moment when she touches him, it explodes the voids and the feelings that she doesn’t know how to feel. So that’s why it just switches into something that’s very mystical. That ending where it blows up, that’s when she first touches Ian and she feels everything that he’s feeling for the first time. “Miss Understood” is about this character who thinks she falls in love with Ian but she actually falls in love with Mito. That’s why it’s so eccentric, and then dies down, and then is eccentric. ![]() “Mood” is literally signifying the whole ups and downs of the process of going through that manic. I don’t know if that’s the better idea, but anyway, ultimately that’s what it was. “Mood” was meant to be our single, until… I just couldn’t do it. So that’s why I wanted to use specific horns and brass instruments. The reason why there are a lot of brass instruments, especially the horns, where it brings upon judgment day and when God tried to destroy all of his creation - and on the seventh day, the angels blew horns signifying the armageddon of the world and that’s when you see all these arch-angels descending. In the middle of the song, you hear horns. It’s meant to symbolize the first moment Mito decided to descend on the world and destroy this God’s creation and the characters. “One Shot” is when Mito first experiences his downs, and this is kind of pointing out when I go through my manic downs. So this whole first track is him remembering the very last conversation that he had with this God before he decided to change and resent him. And it kind of entails the story of Mito feeling the betrayal of love, which is why it’s such a red-based album. That jealousy became fury, and this God saw the danger in that and he tried to put an end to it by banishing him. His first character was Mito, and then later, he started making all of these other characters - but Mito, being his first creation, got jealous. In a story sense, there’s this God that created this universe, and in this universe he makes characters based on himself. So that’s the whole opening, that’s why it’s so cinematic. And “seraph” means “the angels.” It has a little narration, “I look upon you one last time, as my wings are on fire.” It’s more in line with a conversation with God, before He descends, and before He turns into the archangel that He is. ![]() When I’m in my manic episodes, I hear strings, so it’s been a huge thing for me. It takes me a long time to step outside and take a breath of fresh air. “I was just so honed in on getting this story right. ![]() “I don’t think I’ve really thought about how vulnerable it actually made me,” he shares. These are heavy topics that inherently bear at least of a piece of an artist’s soul to the listener, but for Ian, it was all about the story. Ian is candid about Mito’s role in his life and a tool for exploring his own mental health, manic episodes, and journey as someone living with bipolar. MIITO, though, is an incredibly intimate and vulnerable journey, if the listener is ready to take it. Even for those not familiar with the storyline he’s weaving across albums, the music is a great listen, tied together by the expertly polished and often catchy tracks that come out of the DPR world. “From the first album, the character was always the priority,” he explains. The album featured a character of the same name - Mito, an alter-ego of sorts to Ian, partly an extension of himself and partly a fictionalized and heightened way for him to explore his psyche.įor that reason, this album is being referred to as MIITO, the second installment of the story. Moodswings In To Order is the follow-up to 2021’s Moodswings In This Order, shortened to MITO. “I’m at home, and I’ve been editing nonstop for the past…” he trails off. On the day Ian logs on to Zoom to discuss his new album with Consequence, he’s in the midst of editing a short film that will accompany the release of Moodswings In To Order. Dubbed Dream Perfect Regime (DPR), the company is an artist collective helmed by fellow artists Live, Cream, and REM, all of whom attach DPR to the front of their names. The artist born Christian Yu is many things, actually - an editor, a songwriter, a performer, and a former K-pop artist who broke off from the idol world in favor of creating an independent studio where everything from visuals to sound can be managed in-house.
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