das Ich

Fukuoka-based rock duo JEIN. presents das Ich, a collection that unites three previously released works into a single narrative of wandering between worlds.

The album features Sunday, midnight, Kitsune-Ame, and Es - all written and composed by Oharu. Oharu performs vocals and bass, while Osato handles guitar and drums, together creating a sound that is both intimate and expansive.

Each of the three songs exists within a liminal space. Sunday, midnight drifts between wakefulness and sleep, reality and dream. Kitsune-Ame wanders the boundary between the ordinary world and the supernatural, illuminated by the fleeting beauty of a sunshower. Es stands at the threshold between the self constructed by others and the self that exists beneath it, searching for an authentic identity.

Though their settings differ, the songs form a connected trilogy that reflects Oharu's inner world. Across the three works, loneliness, longing, loss, resignation, and acceptance emerge as recurring motifs. Floating through layers of shoegaze, alternative rock, and dream pop, the music traces a journey through emotional and psychological borderlands where certainty dissolves and meaning remains just out of reach.

The album title, das Ich (the Ego), references the concept of the self in psychoanalytic theory. As the culmination of the trilogy, the album turns inward, exploring the fragile boundaries between consciousness and unconsciousness, illusion and reality, self and other.

More than a compilation, das Ich is a conceptual work about inhabiting the spaces in between - a record of dreams, memories, fantasies, and self-discovery.

A journey through three liminal landscapes, gathered into a single reflection of the self.