Subscribe: br Tycho's unique brand of ambient music — highly textured and driven by uplifting melodies and striking guitars — has become a fixture at major festivals around the world. Primarily the main project of Scott Hansen, Tycho was nominated at the Grammys recently, and it became a high point in his music-making career.br br We sit down to discuss the "surreal" nomination, plus taking new leaps with his new album Epoch, explaining why Tycho is largely an "audiovisual" project, and his five favourite albums.