Dead As Digital

Daily Doses: Steezy Ray Vibes “Empty City” (Demo) (2012)

Let’s

Get

Lost.

/ Steezy Ray Vibes Soundcloud/

New Music: Purity Ring “Obedear” From Shrines (2012)

I love everything about the way Purity Ring has approached their first release.

The slow and staggered tracks releases stumbling about the internet.

           The build up of their live show into a two person explosion.

                   And  

       of course

the actual songs… Brilliant sparse works of electro-pop sparked up against lyrics so dense they consume you.

Can’t wait for this release.

Download Purity Ring’s Obedear

(Via P4k)

Doses: Seabright “For Icy” - Digital Single (2012)
Self Released 

Everything is

           rushing by w
                                a
                                  y
                                   y
                                    y

too quickly these days.

But this little slice of slowed down drawl, feels like it’s going just fast enough. 

Download Seabright’s “For Icy”

Daily Doses: Day Joy “Go To Sleep, Mess” From New Ordinary Digital 7” (2012)
Label: Self-Released
Locale: Orlando, FL 

In this first release from Orlando’s Day Joy, little slashes of indie folk run rampant dart and push against world-weary vocals.

Like a forlorn look from through your office window, to the park across the street. 

Download Day Joy “Go To Sleep, Mess”

Download Day Joy’s New Ordinary free from bandcamp

Daily Doses: Gracie x Steffaloo “Quilts” (2011)
Label: Self-Released

Los Angeles’ Steffaloo is on a mission to play with every electronic producer from this coast, to that coast and everything in between. And you’ll hear no complaints from me about it, because every track is just so good! 

Here, recalling some of last summers musical bedroom antics, New York’s Gracie combines with  Steffaloo for a single that spreads out like a sonic oil spill, soaking everything in it’s path with a layer of reverb and glistening distant vocals.

With collaborations like these, who needs a solo project?

Also, be sure to check out Steffaloo’s On Fire 7” on Jaxart.

Download Gracie x Steffaloo’s “Quilts”

Daily Doses: Elvis Depressedly “Crazier With You” From Disgraceland (2011)
Label: Self Released 

Well, this is just a delightful treat.

Mat Cothran (of Coma Cinema) has released a third and (apparently) final EP as Elvis Depressedly.

“Crazier With You”, the second song on the EP is exactly the kind of twisted that makes me love all of Cothran’s stuff. A delicate malaise colored with the feeling of freezing to death.

I think that might be love.

Download Elvis Depressedly’s “Crazier With You” 

Download Disgraceland for a “Name Your Price” fee From Bandcamp

Daily Doses: Estasy “Wild Wants” From Locus Solus (2012) 
Label:  Acephale

When it rains it pours.

Having been searching to the far corners of the internet for anything that could hold my attention long enough to post about for the past few weeks, I exhaustedly rose from bed this morning ready for another long search of soundcloud’s nether regions, only to find a veritable cornucopia of fantastic treats laid out across my e-mails digital doorstep.

I guess Halloween is the turning point into the fight for year end supremacy.

The first thing I noticed was this fantastic screamer from Italy’s “Estasy” I got in from Acephale, which has long been one of my favorite labels (right up there with True Panther and Tri-Angle).

Apparently recorded “With minimal effects, and for the most part live.” Locus Solus’ first track, “Wild Wants” is a haunting and driven reminder that we’re moving away from Summer.

And if these are the types of tracks that are going to start rolling in now that we’ve done away with the heat… I say let Winter take over the world.

Download Estasy’s “Wild Wants” from Locus Solus

Daily Doses: Sun Glitters “Too Much To Lose” Sun Glitters Remix From The Too Much To Lose Single (2011)

Is that title confusing enough for you? 

In case it needs breaking down, the always brilliant Sun Glitters are releasing a single for “Too Much To Lose”, which has remixes on it. 

One of those remixes is by the man himself. A “self remix”.

Meta.

As with everything Sun Glitters has released so far, including his tape on We Get By, it’s a little slice of fantastic.

Download Sun Glitters “Too Much To Lose” (Sun Glitters Remix)

Daily Doses: “Somebody” Walsh Feat. Persona La Ave From Don’t Want 2 Fall In Luv (2011)

This delicious little EP by Nashville’s Walsh (aka Brandon Biondo) just hit recently, and is everything I could have hoped for. 

 Give a listen to the track above. Somebody, the second track on the EP, is a fantastic collaborative effort with Persona La Ave. Colored up with funk and slammed home with some delicious synth work, it’s just kinky enough to be make you want to listen, and just grooving enough to make you start moving.

Download Walsh’s “Somebody” (Feat. Persona La Ave.)

Download Don’t Want 2 Fall In Luv on a “Name Your Price” basis at Wash’s Bandcamp 

Daily Doses: Keep Shelly In Athens “Lazy Noon”

Keep Shelly In Athens recently announced they would be coming out with a new 12” EP, Our Own Dream (Fall, 2011, Forest Family). From this I have finally realized there has to be some sort of greater power, and it likes to give me good music.

Then I realized that would mean It’s the same greater power that likes to put love seats in the middle of the freeway so that I can run into them at 2:00am.

I guess it’s a wash.

Download KSiA “Lazy Mood”

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Daily Doses: Flashing Red Lights “Weekdays” From Faster Horses (2011)

This is the best noise you’ve ever heard.

On Flashing Red Lights’ last E.P., Various Successes I’ve Had (2011) , Mack played hard with programmed beats over stunningly intimate vocals to beautiful effect.

And from the clattering ambient distance in “Conviction 1” to the soaked sadness in “Gold Light”, I have to admit, I kinda thought he had conquered sound about as much as was possible given the restraints of recording every part himself in his bedroom.

Little did I know he was just showing off his control of it.

Here he let’s it run wild.

I’d say Faster Horses sounds like Industrial smashed into Instrumental Hip-Hop, bled over with singer/songwriter before it’s drowned in a pool of Eno’esque (it’s a word) ambient noise.

In other words, it sounds like nothing else I can put my finger on.

Album opener “Weekdays” opens with a guitar that sounds like caged beast, raging against the world in the middle of an iron factory. Meanwhile a mournful vocal waxes and wanes with lines as poetic as:

“I come home from work and you come home from work, and we lie dead as leaves and dull as Winter.”

And as bluntly honest as:

“You spent Christmas Day getting drunk alone.”

It’s a track that captures the feeling fading connection and increasing emotional distance by counter-pointing the softly sung vocals with all the rage smashing into the background.

And ain’t that just the way it is?

Download Flashing Red Lights “Weekdays” from Faster Horses (2011)

Download Flashing Red Lights Faster Horses From His Bandcamp