(Mom + Pop Music, digital) Maybe it's Los Angeles burning, maybe it's the specter of fascism darkening the globe, or maybe it's just the fact that I still don't have a jet pack, but I've been obsessed with retrofuturism of late. But classic sci-fi depictions of a rosy future with flying cars, the abolition of money and, y'know, people that are generally happy with the state of the world — well, they can be a real kick in the nuts when you consider what perception versus reality gets you in 2025. That neon-lit paradox is all over Where You Are, the new EP from San Francisco chillwave act Tycho, which will play in South Burlington this weekend. Largely a solo project of producer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Scott Hansen, Tycho launched with the 2002 EP The Science of Patterns. Hansen's ability to take lo-fi and ambient soundscapes and work them into shimmering pieces of dance-adjacent meditation jams, as on 2011's Dive, established him as a modern successor to electronic acts such as Boards of Canada. Where You Are is by no means a reinvention. Aside from the lead single, "Infinite Health," the tracks on the EP continue Tycho's main creative tenet: drawing warm sonic baths to bring comfort. Amid dreamlike musical trances that evoke a sense of liquid color, there's no escaping the nigh-therapeutic immersion, either in Where You Are or in Hansen's catalog writ large. "Music has a unique ability to heal and help people with things they are going through," Hansen wrote in a press release accompanying the EP. "It's always been my goal when I consume music to find a meditation or a healing property in it. And I only hope that my music can do that for people." "Infinite Health," a remixed version of the track from Tycho's 2024 album of the same name, starts things off with an anthem to taking care of your head. Cleveland singer-songwriter Cautious Clay's lyrics, which espouse the benefits of both proper breath work and psilocybin, fit Hansen's Technicolor stabs of melody and mantra-like beats perfectly. It's fascinating to see how successful the aesthetic that Hansen helped popularize has become in the years since Tycho debuted. Spotify is bursting with ambient and downtempo "Music to Relax To" playlists. French music producer Dmitri's Lofi Girl — an anime character who studies beside her cat while lo-fi beats soundtrack the scene — has become a…