about the album

“Can I perform my poetry for you? In tapes?”
My distorted poetry.

blame it on the caffeine is a sonic reimagining of 15 poems from the artist’s debut poetry collection, It’s the caffeine dancing. a series of recitations exploring multivocality – driven by a primitive urge to speak, to utter, to home, to co-exist with languages, and to be with oneself, here and now. 

across 14 tracks, poet/ sound-sculptor Peace Wong drifts between spoken-word electronica, trip-hop, queer folk, musique concrète, sapphic pop, slowcore, and ambient music. it is a narrative space opened by poetry and collided into sound. her voice slips between Cantonese, Mandarin, and English in a temporal disarray — flickering between intimate language and defamiliarized syllables. the album bursts with a string of dog barks and ends with lo-fi piano playing in a café. some rhythms are essentially bright, others unapologetically hesitant. these are poems that speak, poems that accidentally hum, poems that interrupt, poems that desperately knock, knock, knock..

an experimental audio-book. an interplay of sound, words and syllables. 

a piece of music (or no).

《怪咖啡因 blame it on the caffeine》是由王和平詩集《過動公寓 it’s the caffeine dancing》分裂而成的詩專輯，一部耳膜書。作者以十四首曲子重新詮釋詩集中的十五首詩，並企圖以一次一次的面壁朗讀，回到自身、當下、超越自我生命的凝滯。人聲在國語、粵語、英語間時空錯亂，在私密語言與不俐落音節間，忽明忽暗，亦是為作者長居異地的腦中風景。歌曲風格遊走於緩慢說唱、怪奇電子、酷兒民謠、莎芙式流行、聲音拼貼和氛圍音樂。先亂敲一些聲音、朗讀好些句子、排列一些田野，再花費幾千百萬分鐘企圖理出一個邏輯（或不）。它是由詩打開，與聲音碰撞的（敘事）空間，（或也只是個巧合）。專輯以一串狗吠聲開始，咖啡廳的琴聲作結，中間一些節奏明亮一些遲疑。會說話的詩、不小心唱起來的詩、派對裡插播的詩、會敲門的詩。

《怪咖啡因》是詩的變體，也是詩的還原。

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