Birth of a New Day (Japanese: 新しい日の誕生, Hepburn: Atarashī Ni~Tsu no Tanjō) is the second studio album by British vaporwave and ambient duo 2814. It was released on 21 January 2015 on the duo's own label Dream Catalogue, made available for download and as a limited edition batch of CD-Rs.[2][3] The album was later released on cassette format by the label Not Not Fun on 14 August 2015.[3][4] Following a successful Indiegogo campaign, Dream Catalogue also issued a double vinyl edition.[3][5]
Birth of a New Day is one of the most popular releases associated with the vaporwave genre, as well as one of the bestselling albums on the music website Bandcamp.[6][7] In a profile of the duo, Rolling Stone noted that the album had become "an unparalleled success within a small, passionate pocket of the Internet".[7]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Restore" (Huīfù (恢复))
5:51
2.
"Distant Lovers" (Tōku no Aikō-Ka (遠くの愛好家))
6:18
3.
"Shinjuku Golden Gai" (Shinjuku Gōruden-Gai (新宿ゴールデン街))
8:51
4.
"Drifting" (Fuwatto (ふわっと))
6:36
5.
"Sorrow" (Hiai (悲哀))
9:23
6.
"True Love" (Shinjitsu no Koi (真実の恋))
7:12
7.
"Telepathy" (Terepashī (テレパシー))
10:08
8.
"Birth of a New Day" (Atarashī Ni~Tsu no Tanjō (新しい日の誕生))